"We quite rightly prosecute and often jail people guilty of damaging our society through conventional crime and antisocial behaviour.
Perhaps an extra layer of conviction and horror is added by the knowledge that Theron's mother killed her drunken and abusive father in self-defence when the actress was only 15, a killing for which she was rightly not prosecuted.
"That's why if you kill a police officer, you are rightly arrested and prosecuted".
Things actually lurched in a troubling direction under the Obama administration, which was rightly criticized for prosecuting whistleblowers and spying on reporters.
"It is probably a crime under the current law to assist somebody to go to a clinic abroad, but, as Debbie has rightly said, nobody is usually prosecuted," the former lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, said.
"Transnational smuggling organizations such as those headed by Deme Nikqi are rightly viewed as a threat to national security, and will be vigorously prosecuted," she said.
"The chief constable of South Yorkshire police has rightly said that if people have broken the law then they should be prosecuted and his force would co-operate with any new inquiry".
Stragglers will be prosecuted.
Few people are prosecuted.
