What Punishment Fits the Crime?

A recipient of a Golden Globe last night, Peter Dinklage, dedicated it to a dwarf named Martin Henderson who was crippled as a result of being assaulted by a stranger, “tossed,” as the euphemism goes.

I know we usually mete out fines or jail terms when we find someone guilty of a crime. But some crimes, some types of depraved cruelty, seem to call for  more poetic forms of justice. If the person who crippled the man in question is caught and convicted, what do you think his punishment ought to be? (Just to be clear, I don’t think this is funny.) What justice would be sufficiently poetic? Would any of it be of use to Mr. Henderson?