Harding's Not So Hard Punishment

Everyone knows the background to the this story. Tonya Harding was notorious among the skating world after her then-husband, and bodyguard hired Shane Stant to break the right leg of Harding's opponent, Nancy Kerrigan. She claimed to have no part of the deals, or conspiracy, but that is a blatant fallacy. Harding clearly had some part in the vicious attack because no one else had any real incentive to taking out Kerrigan, and the copious amounts of evidence, and simple common sense. The sick attack on Kerrigan forced her to withdraw from the competition, allowing Harding to secure the gold medal at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

The worst part of the entire ordeal, is the lack thereof a justifiable punishment forced onto Tonya Harding. Everyone involved in the attack had to serve some form of time in prison, except Harding of course. She got off extremely lightly after agreeing to plead guilty to conspiring to hinder the persecution of attackers. All she had to do was some community service, and pay a fine. She still got to skate in the Olympics too, during a time when she should be in prison for conspiring assault on an innocent woman. It's simple really, Tonya Harding saw Nancy Kerrigan as a threat so she took care of the threat, and got away with it.