[Junior]

I wouldn't exactly call the mob that killed Socrates to be the leaders of a "free society"

Why not? We're a free society and we put people to death all the time.

[MacDorcha]

Largely because it was the mob who put him to death. And not because of any noted crime, excepting his outspokeness against Athenian democracy.

The man was not a killer. The man was not a thief. The man was not immoral. All signs point to "unjust death"