New Hampshire: A New Law Will Require Criminals To Face Their Victim’s Family

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/11/us-usa-new-hampshire-sentencing-idUSKCN0QG28H20150811

The law, believed to be the first of its kind in the United States, was proposed after a man convicted last year of murdering a 19-year-old college student asked not to attend his sentencing, saying he didn’t want to hear the victim’s family “yell and whine and bitch and moan.”
In the end, convicted murderer Seth Mazzaglia, 33, dropped the request and attended the sentencing, where family members of his victim, Elizabeth “Lizzy”