Quote by Rudyard Kipling

“that the only Indians who went on trial were”

— Katherine Boo

“Should Indian adults attempt to use the California courts to bring such killers to justice, they invariably were frustrated because the law of the…

— David E. Stannard

“An ancient English law made it a crime to witness a murder or discover a corpse and not raise a “hue and cry.” But”

— Adam Hochschild

“The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious…

— Francis Iles

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo…

— Katherine Boo

“I am one of the few people in the world who can murder you and leave no forensic evidence.”

— Abby Sciuto

“There is room on this land for all of us and there must also be, after centuries of struggle, room for justice for Indigenous…

— Arthur Manuel

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

— Mark Twain

“Face it, if crime did not pay there would be very few criminals”

— Laughton Lewis Burdock

“In the detective story, as in its mirror image, the Quest for the Grail, maps (the ritual of space) and timetables (the ritual of…

— W.H. Auden

“There was one question that the judge and the prosecutors and the defense never asked the jurors but that was central to the proceedings:…

— David Grann

“They even convict and execute the dead.”

— Julie Berry