Justice In Steve Pools Word 'The Kenn's Transcendiaries'

Justice can have many interpretations one that many have is that justice is a person paying an equal or worse penalty for the things that they do. But what is the difference between that and revenge? There is none. Justice is taking actions against a person or organization because of their wrongs but not in a spirit of revenge or spite but for the higher cause of stopping them from committing further wrongs. The Declaration of independence shows how The American people were not getting justice from their king. there are many grievances cited against him but the cruelest are where Thomas Jefferson writes of the state sanctioned murder and pillaging wrought by the British forces. “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.” with the interpretation of justice that equal or worse penalty’s should be sentenced in the name of justice then by these standards London

In the writer Steve Pools words “The Kenn incendiaries, it is argued here, were put to death at the scene of their crime to protect and uphold the principle of informing in a rural community whose dysfunctional social relations made the practice a judicial necessity.”(Pool) This “judicial necessity” consisted of taking the condemned men back to the scene of the crime and hanging from a wagon (Pool) a method that instead of quickly breaking the neck would only cause strangulation and a much longer death. While using a person to set an example may seem to be in the interest of the greater good the account of the Kenn hangings shows how the family of the three executed men were forced out of the area and for many years after could not enter town without feeling threatened (Pool). This clearly shows how effective making an example of these three men was for keeping the peace and the general greater