A Teen’s Sentence Sparks Debate About Justice, Choices, and Consequences

a way to ensure that the damage caused can never be repeated. But the other side sees something far more haunting: the death of hope. They ask whether a system that removes the possibility of change—of growth, of atonement, of eventual return—has truly achieved justice, or if it has simply traded one tragedy for another.

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