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/^t/Secondly, we must keep in mind that having sentenced somebody to death and having administered the sentence we cannot rescind it; it is absolutely irrevocable. And what if all of a sudden it turns out that the judges who passed such a verdict were wrong? That there occurred a mistake in the evidence or in the procedure? What if some factor which was hidden or simply overlooked crops up and alters the entire situation? This may always happen. Yet if it does, nothing can be done just because the person who was regarded as guilty and who now appears to be innocent is already punished; in other words - dead. In such circumstances all we can do, apart from chasing the real criminal, is to announce to the world that the person who was sentenced and punished was in fact blameless but by doing so we hardly do justice to him or her as we simply cannot bring them back to life. This is obvious. But let us try more to see the obviousness of things also before, not only after, we have decided to act.