It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. Thomas Jefferson
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go. Dolores Ibárruri
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty. Michel Foucault
A confession is wholly and incontestably voluntary only if a guilty person gives himself up to the law and becomes his own accuser. Robert H. Jackson
He drew himself up and said with dignity: "We administer justice, Mr. Courtenay. And an ancient, basic tenet of justice is: ‘Better that one thousand innocents suffer unjustly than one guilty person be permitted to escape.'”. Frederik Pohl