You must be joking! They actually THINK Whittington a criminalcause he survived???
Hey, he was out shooting quail. You know the DU routine: animals GOOD, humans BAD, hunting MURDER, murderer CRIMINAL.
Of course, they have to stop there, because of their inherent inability to consistently insist "criminal PUNISHMENT". Often, and always selectively so, it's "criminal FEEL-YOUR-PAIN", or "criminal VICTIM-OF-SOCIETY", rarely "criminal PUNSHMENT" unless the 'criminal' is a Republican, which they would consider a redundancy.
No, he goes to pre-victim status. He's useless to them alive. There was no real sympathy for him anyway.