Nine years and four months for 3 lives

[jimharri]

In this scenario I'm not sure 27 years behind bars does any good for society either. Just end up with a 46 year old who can offer society nothing.

Hard picking what the appropriate punishment/rehabilitation should be though.

Banned from driving for life, education courses on the impact of his actions whilst behind bars and then there should be a minimum number of hours community service every week for the rest of his life. I think all would be appropriate.

I wasn't necessarily saying he should have got 27 years (murderers get less than that) though it does read like that, to be fair. What I am saying is that he should have got substantially longer than 9 years (likely to be out in 6). Sentences are supposed to be, among other things, a punishment. And isn't the punishment supposed to fit the crime? 9 years for killing three kids (irrespective of whether they were having a good time or not, and were apparently in the car of their own free will) doesn't seem to be a fitting punishment. Not to me, anyway.