A courtroom fell silent, then erupted into disbelief, when a judge handed down a sentence almost too vast to comprehend: four hundred and fifty-two years for a defendant who was still a teenager at the time of the crime. The number did not just measure punishment; it seemed to erase any notion that a life sentence could end in something other than absolute finality. Families of the victims welcomed it as vindication. Others were left wondering whether justice, once dispensed at that scale, still leaves room for
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