I've been reading a lot of articles lately, which describe in detail the sympathetic pasts and life stories of convicted criminals. Personally, I would love to

I've been reading a lot of articles lately, which describe in detail the sympathetic pasts and life stories of convicted criminals. Personally, I would love to see a balance where victims of crime have their life stories written about and sympathetically depicted as well. In this article for example, the Sheldon family story was told in great detail, but Yu, a university student who was killed while walking down the street, for no fault of his own, barely got a paragraph or two. I wonder how many of those arguing for more lenient sentencing laws would change their minds, if they were exposed in detail to all the lives that were ruined or ended by the actions of criminals.