Rather than hardened criminals, the intruders are petty malefactors jailed through mistakes. "malefactors are swiftly detected and promptly brought to answer for their misdeeds". It was there that malefactors were flogged before a large concourse of people. The name roughly means "the assembly of trespassers" or malefactors. These "carnal malefactors" are condemned for allowing their appetites to sway their reason. Subsequently, the word 'cateran' came to refer to those Highland bandits or malefactors. The poison was fetched by condemned malefactors, of whom scarcely two out of twenty returned. Ravi witnesses the crime but the malefactors are acquitted with fake alibis. On such malefactors were nailed for execution. An avenger seeks out malefactors and confronts them with a toy drummer before killing them. He becomes the Angel of Death (Mrityudaata), who will put all those malefactors to death. John holds the malefactors at gun point, while Cranston lets in the police. They do not hang more malefactors than we do.