If your loved ones were hurt by someone, you are the last person who should be able to decide the government’s treatment of that malefactor.  That would be officialized vengeance, the opposite of a rule of law.  That is why victims’ rights groups, to the extent that their members have truly been hurt by others, like MADD, SADD, etc., should not be in the position to decree punishment for the category of crimes that injured their loved ones.