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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Hangman] What did that man do to be sentenced to death? Is he a criminal? And why does he get to live if I can guess a word correctly?
gpt
It's less that the hanged man deserves it, and more the fact that the person sentencing him is a bastard. Have you ever considered that maybe it's some sadist who enjoys doing this?

Keep in mind, corrupt or overzealous judges always exist and in the Wild West, judges often bounced between towns to sentence as many people as they possibly could because it paid more. In fact, this is where the name "Kangaroo Court" comes from.

And as stated, sometimes the judge just really wanted to hang people they believed as guilty. For example, the man who was trying to hang the protagonists in *O Brother, Where Art Thou?* kept hunting down the main characters even after they were pardoned by the state governor (meaning he was going to commit a blatant murder) because he believed them guilty.

There's also the judge who was one of the victims in the Agatha Christie novel *And Then There Were None* who was trapped on the island with a serial killer called UN Owen; the reason Owen invited him there and is going to kill him is because he had forced a jury into sentencing an innocent man to death just because he was certain the man was guilty. >!The judge was UN Owen; he liked killing people but kept himself restrained due to his sense of justice. Once he had been diagnosed with a terminal illness, he tracked down nine others who got away with murder and killed them all.!<

There's also a famous short story called *The Judge's House*, written by Bram Stoker, about a college student who rents the house of a hanging judge so he can focus on his studies, but he feels increasingly uncomfortable because of a large rat that keeps watching him, which  the student believes is possessed by the ghost of the judge who kept sentencing people to hang. >!He's right, and the judge hangs the student as well.!<