It had nonetheless exterminated him via capital punishment for violating the legal order it upheld, looking on with implacable righteousness, as though reality thereby accorded with justice. Kido believed this was wrong. For the judiciary to cancel out such a failure of the legislative and executive branches by nullifying the existence of the resulting lawbreaker was simply disingenuous. If such a system went unchallenged, a vicious cycle would emerge in which the blighted citizenry needed to be executed in ever greater numbers as the state slipped further and further into decline.
