All things considered, it is very sad that, in the end, more lives should be destroyed. One teenager mistake took the life of one man, and shattered the life of his fiancée, mother, and friends. If he was arrested at the scene, it could be said that we couldn't be sure of his future actions; he could, after all, continue to take more lives. But he wasn't. He deeply regretted it for the next 30 years. He tried to make a difference. Just like Bobby. He took care of countless children. Countless more than he would have taken care of if he had been arrested. Now, 30 years later, his life is destroyed. But similarly to Emmett, not just his. It is a system that should, above all, provide for resocialization, but in fact favors revenge. And that, on behalf of a given number of lives destroyed decades ago, acts for more countless other lives to be destroyed decades later...
Darlin', you dialed the number for hell. Who did you think would answer?
Felt like I was watching a Carl Sagan's Cosmos episode... Love It!