Evelyn watched video played in the courtroom, showing her son, Timothy, heavily intoxicated as he fell and bumped into furniture on the day before he died. "It almost felt like your head was in a vise being squeezed," Jim told The Washington Post.
Brendan Young, the president of Penn State's Beta Theta Pi chapter at the time of Timothy's death, and Daniel Casey, the vice president, were each sentenced to between two and four months in prison, followed by three years of probation.
Hank Nuwer, who has written multiple books about hazing, said that before 2010, hazing deaths were usually punished with a fine and "a slap on the wrist... The activism of parents whose children have died as a result of hazing, including the Piazzas, has helped create harsher punishments."
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