So sentencing him, then commuting the sentence, then him getting paroled solves the issue how? If the violent despair is the source of the (later) murder, then how does after-the-fact alleviation solve the problem of needing to avoid the despair in the first place?
There are multiple reasons... in this case getting rid of a seemingly excessive sentence when the 27 year old hadn’t acted up, except for minor skirmishes since he was 17. The anti-Huck people on this thread never liked him and now want him to have had a crystal ball. Last year they attacking him for outlawing price gouging in middle of storms and natural disasters.