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Maimonides1138–1204

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Maimonides on justice

Sefer Hamitzvot [Book of the Commandments], commentary on Negative Commandment 290, as translated by Charles B. Chavel (1967)

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