Talk:Ivana Golovanov/@comment-17799429-20140622151701/@comment-5118077-20191223062756

It doesn't give her an excuse. And at the time hate crimes were not prosecuted as widely as they are today.

Still, a 20-year-sentence for such a brutal hate crime is too lenient because it also opens the possibility for parole. As an undocumented immigrant, Ling Zhang has no family members except for her husband Piotr Golovanov to speak in her memory.

And Piotr is in a really impossible bind--does he speak up for his murdered wife's memory and help deny parole for Ivana or does he say nothing and end up betraying his murdered wife's memory?