The Cresset, Advent-Christmas 2009 (Vol LXXIII, No. 2, p. 51)

On Justice in America

Dorothea Kewley

The phrase “fair trial”
always reminds me
of a delightful Western
I saw in 1948.

Someone said of the villain,
“We’ll give him a fair trial

and hang him
first thing in the morning.”