The basis of the sentence was around the cruel and unusual punishment argument. If he would have gone to prison for a multi year sentence he would have because of his former cop status been forced into segregated lockdown, or multi years of 23 1/2 hour days in cell with very little human contact. That to me sounds a little extreme for the crime that he commited.
He made a stupid procedural mistake by carrying his pistol into the cell with a prisoner who made a play for his gun. He shot him once and then over reacted by shooting him in the head, but it sounds like it was an instinctive shot.
It wasn't a malicious or planned act so he shouldn't see the sentence of life which in Canada is 7 years.
Its all in the perspective.
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