A travesty of justice is any situation where the natural principles of law are thwarted on account of circumstances or human action. Origins was brave enough to say: "He who is summoned here on a capital charge appears like one who would order us to execution straightway if we should pronounce him guilty. Yet I can blame him less than you and the king, since ye permit such a travesty of justice. Know then that he before whom ye now tremble will some day deliver you to the executioner. Victims or Perpetrators or Circumstances * Aruna Shanbaug * Mirza Tahir Hussain * Shirley McKie * Liu Xiaobo * Fritz Moen * David Milgaard * Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
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