Originally Posted by Bestworking:
There's so many ways to go with things like this. For instance, the victim of the person's crime should have a say in it, and there would probably be a lot of people that thought just sending them to church wasn't justice.
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Victims do not have any conclusive "say" in such matters and should not. A victim can be consulted by prosecutors as to whether the victim would be satisfied by a proposed plea bargain. A victim can appear and speak at a sentencing hearing. But the decision on sentencing is up to the court, not the victim.