I tend to think that once you've murdered someone, especially in such a gruesome manner, there is no real return to normalcy. The doctors can't be 100% certain of anything. Justice isn't just about prevention of future incidents, its also about punishment for crimes already committed.
Understanding the role that mental illness played here is great, but at the end of the day another's man life was brutally ended. Maybe its not a normal prison life sentence, but you can't just let Li go as a normal member of society now. There has to be some punitive measure for the action he committed.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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