This was a particularly brutal crime and the brutality was only exceeded by the premeditation.

In simple terms criminals use vehicles. If you want to commit a crime, you're going to use a vehicle. There is nothing secretive about it and we don't want it to be secret, because we want people to feel safer, to see that they are protected.

He beat his father with a baseball bat while he was sleeping. He cut his throat and then went to great lengths to hide his father's body.

This defendant planned this execution of his father and carried it out very efficiently.

All of that for using foul language and clearing a crime scene. They showed no compassion. They were only interested in the politics.

He's clearly a man with a mission, but it's not one of vengeance. Bruce is not after personal revenge ... He's much bigger than that; he's much more noble than that. He wants the world to be a better place, where a young Bruce Wayne would not be a victim ... In a way, he's out to make himself unnecessary. Batman is a hero who wishes he didn't have to exist.