” but unless there is some requirement that is being waived to allow the dude to graduate, there is no grounds for protest. “
If the killer did the work and earned the credits, I don’t see how to stop him graduating either. Just mail his diploma and don’t let him walk. Then school officials won’t have to shake his fiendish, bloody hand. Dad best spend his efforts ensuring the killer gets the max.
If he deserves hanging, hang him. If, in the mean time, he deserves a diploma, give him a diploma.
The main flaw with him graduating is that, from what one hears, he ought to have been swiftly executed which would make him ineligible.