Two court cases last week, on either side of the Atlantic, helped illuminate the tensions in our thinking about justice. The first was the harrowing trial of Larry Nassar, the American doctor who, over decades, had abused dozens of gymnasts, mainly young girls, in his care. In the final week, 156 women gave personal statements, testimonies that were both distressing and inspiring.
In her summing-up, Judge Rosemarie Aquilina observed that “our constitution does not allow for cruel and unusual punishment”. If it did, she would have allowed “many people to do to him what he did to others”. She then sentenced Nassar to up to 175 years in prison.
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