Adam Smith - “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
Exactly. And trials have been turned into a tool used by perps to inflict more harm on survivors of their crimes or victims families of the deceased. A case like that is going on now in Knoxville, Tennessee over a Double Rape/Torture/Murder case. The parents of their two murdered kids are having to relive trial after trial then retrials because of a corrupt judge. Trials that should last no more than a week or two are turned into months long dramas.