If he was performing an act of justice, how could it be a crime?

"I think executing you is a simple act of justice."

"The decision to reopen the case is an act of justice and respect for the historical truth."

But this is less an act of justice than the exercise of power.

Nor was this worthy act of justice long delay'd: I had it too much at heart.

In the play, the act of justice is allowing a state to pronounce judgment.

Spirits had also been recorded to have appeared to carry out other acts of justice.

What good is an act of justice if there isn't a witness to see it executed?"

I consider it an elementary act of justice that these Mexicans be allowed to vote."

And you would be performing an act of justice."

Death can never be an act of justice.

Startled, Orin realizes that his death would be another act of justice.

This act of justice prevented our commander from being placed in a disagreeable situation.

The European Union holds the position that the death penalty can never be regarded as an act of justice.

To execute such a criminal, a man who reveled in his atrocities, is an act of justice.

If Ney were to be shot, it is obvious that it should have been as a high act of justice.

The present services directive is an act of justice, and I would call on the Commissioner to continue defending it.

Mine was but an act of justice!"

Many acts of justice are performed out of the range of legality.

There were Americans who considered the execution of an adolescent to be barbaric while others hailed it as an act of justice.

It is only an act of justice to add that the diamonds were afterward counted, and not one of them was missing."

"Was raping me an act of justice?

The children of Armenia who were exiled to our countries at the beginning of the century expect today an act of justice.

It is an act of justice, whereby I must say emphatically that the problem is not Islam.

Yet all Miranda did was require that arrested suspects be advised of their rights, an act of justice long familiar to anyone who watches television.