And why doesn't the executive have a right to grant a pardon?
God's idea of justice forbids it:
“One witness shall not rise against a man concerning any iniquity or any sin that he commits; by the mouth of two or three witnesses the matter shall be established. “If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing, “then both men in the controversy shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges who serve in those days. “And the judges shall make careful inquiry, and indeed, if the witness is a false witness, who has testified falsely against his brother, “then you shall do to him as he thought to have done to his brother; so you shall put away the evil from among you. “And those who remain shall hear and fear, and hereafter they shall not again commit such evil among you. “Your eye shall not pity: life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. (Deuteronomy 19:15-21 NKJV)
“But if anyone hates his neighbor, lies in wait for him, rises against him and strikes him mortally, so that he dies, and he flees to one of these cities, “then the elders of his city shall send and bring him from there, and deliver him over to the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. “Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you. (Deuteronomy 19:11-13 NKJV)
So are you suggesting that we should treat a man rushing to take his dying child to the hospital exactly as we do a teenager speeding down the road because he wants to see how fast his car will go?
What do you think?
These are two very different cases. Good judgement will divine between the two.
That takes us back to the whether the Sabbath was made for man or man for the Sabbath.
The sabbath laws are ceremonial. They are not part of God's criminal justice system.
How can you possibly hope to understand the case against your system if you do not appreciate its distinctions?
Grace isn't the court's province.
If you're going to agree with me, you could just say so. A justice system is not authorised to pardon people, show leniency or grace.