Trial by Ordeal

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• 11/14/2021
  

  Kyle Rittenhouse's Trial Will End in a Verdict. The Nation's Trial By Ordeal Won't

  by Thomas Lecaque

  "A trial by ordeal was not about miracles or superstition. It was, in effect, about the community making a decision on the innocence or guilt of the party, and then bringing it about." Kyle Rittenhouse's trial prompts an uncomfortable reckoning with the continuity of some medieval practices of justice.