I was waiting for the link.
Ohmigod, when an item this shocking crosses the wire the pressroom is electric; there's no burnout as everybody's plugged in, and there's no news blackout in the field due to a spike of interest in current events, no marter how revolting.
Had they survived, I'm positive the DA would have hit them with a battery of amped-up charges, such as joule theft, in circuit court due to the negative publicity, but their condition was terminal. Had he been resistant to doing this, the shocked public would have given him static for ignoring criminal conduct.