Did you pull the trigger by accident? You assumed the risk the moment you decided to cock the gun.
Did you cock the gun by accident? You assumed the risk the moment you decided to engage.
All that said, I don't believe in punitive justice. For me, justice should be reparative.
It's great if he has recovered and been pardoned by the victim.
I also don't think isolating someone as much is good either.
However, I can understand how you might want to isolate someone who does such wicked action. It's a shame nothing else was done during incarceration, though.
Thankfully death penalty wasn't applied. We can't trust the state to decide who lives or dies.
Not only are there too many victims of wrongful convictions, but the cost of a single miscarriage of justice is unbearable.