Baws is quite right to highlight this issue, it's boiled my piss for some time now. If some cunt has been found guilty of a crime, let the fucking judge decide on the sentence, it doesn't matter what the rest of us feel, family or not. If you are convicted of a crime you should be punished by whatever the law specifies, not by whatever the victim reckons is about right (which would usually amount to "this cunt ran over my cat, he should have his bollocks chopped off and pay me £50k in reparations.") That's the whole point of a legal system, it's supposed to make a balanced decision based on the nature of the crime, not the effect of it.