I’ve heard what they say a thousand times usually after some drunk rapes a woman or he kills people driving recklessly. “He is a fine young man at the start of his life. You have no right to punish him for the rest of his life” That is a quote about a drunk asshole farmers son who crashed his pickup and left the scene with his dying date still trapped in the truck. This was before cell phones were common. She died and he walked away with no punishment.