What does George Huguely’s sentence say about the way we punish killers?


A bailiff escorts George Huguely into Charlottesville Circuit Court before Judge Edward Hogshire sentenced him to 23 years in prison for the murder of his sometime girlfriend Yeardley Love. Photo: John Robinson

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