A Time to Kill (Jake Brigance, #1)

by John Grisham

“The system reflects society. It’s not always fair, but it’s as fair as the system in New York, or Massachusetts, or California. It’s as fair as biased, emotional humans can make it.”

Any system of justice and punishment is only as fair as the people who devise it and administer it. And those people, whoever they are, are human and make mistakes.