I'm not advocating for forgiveness. Not for him, and not for anyone else here, no matter how sympathetic their cases are. [There's a very brief pause for dramatic effect, because he's very much his father's son.] Forgiveness is something that can only be given individually. And even then, we owe it to the victims that we couldn't save to not forget that this - or something like this - can and will happen again, only next time the people on trial might be a different assortment.

That doesn't mean they should be lynched. Or robbed of a chance to earn that forgiveness. [He doesn't think Hickey will act on that chance - not actively, but he's been surprised before.]

The only thing unique about Hickey that makes him potentially more of a threat than the others is his complete lack of object permanence with regard to the consequences of his own actions. [And just the fact that he sucks in general.] And if you punish him as an exception to the others now, in a setting where we were all affected by the same force that could have very easily pushed us to murder, except a few of us felt the effects even harder - Hickey being among them - you set an infinitely more dangerous precedent.