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He still needs to spend most of the rest of his life being "rehabilitated" in jail or in a psychiatric facility.
You don't simply get to inflict a potentially lethal and disabling traumatic brain injury against someone and then get out of jail free because you're "sorry" [that you got in trouble]. This man, and people like him, need to spend time away from society so that they can truly have time to process what they've done. Anything else would be an injustice to the victims.
Some brain injuries can lead to fates which are far worse than imprisonment or death; paralysis, inability to communicate, mental retardation, excrutiating and random neuropathic pain, and other things that have major implications for quality of life. And any person who would intentionally inflict such an injury on another person needs to go away for a long, long time.
I was taught growing up that we are ALL just 1 brain injury away from a drastically worse life, and it's true.