If a community really wants to severely punish something that's legally not a cr...

PeterisP on Aug 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Man arrested for promoting jury nullification wins...

If a community really wants to severely punish something that's legally not a crime, jury nullification enables the community representatives to enact whatever extrajudicial punishment they want (e.g. the existing examples of lynching or "honor killings"/"honor rapes" in certain communities) and then protect these punishers from the legal system.

eru on Aug 9, 2022 [–]

To a certain extent, yes, but the punishers need to be tried locally, too, for this to work.