On air at 17&18GMT: What purpose should justice serve?
| 14:34 UK time, Thursday, 12 May 2011
JOHN DEMJANJUK
A German court has found the 91 year old guilty of helping to murder more than 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp. He's been sentenced to five years in prison. The prosecution was calling for six. Now we have the verdict and the punishment, was the lengthy pursuit of this elderly man worth the time, effort and expense?
OSAMA BIN LADEN
His death may have shifted out of the lead stories in the mainstream media, but levels of interest are undimmed. Earlier, three of the top ten stories on bbcnews.com were about this. The latest development is that US Attorney General Eric Holder has insisted Bin Laden was not assassinated. Clearly it's impossible for us to know exactly what happened, but we can still discuss (as we have done on the show) what would have constituted justice for the attacks he helped to organise.
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