meh has nothing to do with forgiveness, self-righteousness or even time served really. It's a matter of prevention. As a victim you see to it that the person isn't just let go to do it to someone else tomorrow (literally). In this case the perpetrator was incarcerated and then kicked out of the country, proportionately correct under the circumstances of the case. His victims guilt is his own confusion, likely brought on by his progressive ideals.
As for executing such people, this would only result in a new assassin class to say the least. Hire an assassin to seduce someone, they cry rape, the mark is executed by the state. I can see a lot of flaws in disproportionate sentences, and likely leading to other such improper uses of justice such as executing the victim like they do under sharia law.
Any form of acceptable disproportionate extremism leads to a disproportionate counter extremism eventually, a cause and effect result. Western law is more based upon an eye for an eye, where as such executions under disproportionate measure within modern law practice I only know of by examples of sharia law, at least as practiced culturally among a number of countries rather than some often odd local law standards (e.g. laws of the wild west etc).
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