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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1566095" data-attributes="member: 18377">The judge and jury were present, but they didn't do their job. The judge didn't public demonstrate a due process and fair trial. The jury didn't hear the defence or impartially consider the evidence.Not quite, fortunately. But red-handed enough.So why this unseemly haste to make sure that he died before he could talk?Why make sure he is dead before the public could hear what he might have to say?This smacks of a cover-up. It brings the law into disrepute. It promotes suspicion and discourages trust in justice. It encourages feuding.It is irregular, undisciplined, and relies on the personal over the institutional. It is Chaotic.Neither are judges nor juries.Indeed. And this guy deserved everything his got. But from the Lawful point of view the community deserved more.Okay, fine. By all means let the paladin institute an ecclesiastical court consisting of himself. But let it proceed Lawfully, in public, by a due process. A divine law that proceeds in secret, without formal process, judges on superficial appearance without performing any investigation, does not allow any defence to be presented, and has a 'jury' consisting of a "GUILTY!" stamp is going to commit gross injustices, even though this may not have been one of them. And even if it didn't convict any considerable number of innocent people, it would never be able to create a lawful attitude in any community.</blockquote>

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