The refusal of a return to his family for a dying man whose verdict is not even yet secure looks uncomfortably like either an aspect of revenge -- or perhaps timidity.
「評決がまだ確定されてもいない瀕死の男を家族のもとに返すことの拒絶は、不快なことに復讐のようにーまたはたぶん臆病ーのように見えます。」