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Piso's Justice
That is Piso's justice. Verbally right, but morally wrong.
Seneca tells us that Piso condemned a man on circumstancial evidence
for murder; but when the suspect was at the place of execution, the man
supposed to have been murdered exclaimed, “Hold, hold! I am the man
supposed to have been killed.” The centurion sent back the prisoner to
Piso, and explained the case to him; whereupon Piso condemned all three
to death, saying, “Fiat justitia.” The man condemned is to be
executed because sentence of death has been passed upon him, and fiat justitia; the centurion is to be executed because he has
disobeyed orders, and fiat justitia; the man supposed to have
been murdered is to be executed because he has been the cause of death
to two innocent men, and fiat justitia etsi coelum ruat.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Piso's Justice from Infoplease:
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