“Perversion of justice.”
This phrase appears in today’s reading from Isaiah. It’s a troubling phrase because it means someone has been mangled by a system that should’ve provided protection from exactly such a mangling.
If you Google “perversion of justice,” you’ll come up with a disturbing number of examples of people whom justice not only failed to protect but also did them significant harm. One site contains a list titled “10 Notorious Criminals Proven Innocent After Execution.” That list goes back quite a way, but one example from 1887 seems particularly flagrant.
It concerns a man named William Marion. He met Jack Cameron in Kansas in 1872, and the two quickly became friends. They traveled and worked together across the Midwest. At one point, they went to Beatrice, Nebraska, to visit Marion’s in-laws. Marion returned from that visit alone, wearing Cameron’s clothes and riding Cameron’s horses. He then...
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