Editorialist: To ensure justice in the legal system, citizens must be capable of criticizing anyone involved in determining the punishment of criminals  But when the legal system' s purpose is seen as deterrence, the system falls into the hands of experts whose specialty is to assess how potential lawbreakers are affected by the system' s punishments
Because most citizens lack knowledge about such matters, justice is not then ensured in the legal system
In order to be just, a legal system must consider the effect that punishment will have on individual criminals.