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She tried to save her son’s life, and for that, we tried to take hers.

Many of us grow up hearing that justice is “letting the punishment fit the crime.” So if someone commits a horrible crime, it seems completely fair to punish them equally horribly. But what if we’re wrong? And what if, once we realize it, we can’t take the punishment back?

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