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It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.