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-We questioned her but she was catatonic. (having catatonia , a syndrome characterized by muscular rigidity and mental stupor or affected by schizophrenia {Dictionary.com}/ state of immobility and stupor/ froze/ numb/ paralyzed/ congealed/ at a loss for words)
~ Paramedics rush a catatonic Ashley to the hospital. {Investigation Discovery, TV Series}
~ But in her presence, I was seized by an accursed shyness that paralyzed my tongue, and the things I had planned to say were left unuttered. {American Winston Churchill}
~The look of the marquis, threatening him, paralysed his tongue. {O Henry, Roads of Destiny}

-There was nothing nefarious about what she did. (Flagrantly wicked or impious/extremely …show more content…
(a phrase by Hannah Arendt in her thesis of 1963, in which she explains that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal/ normalizing the unthinkable/ the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous, and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as the way things are done {Wikipedia}/believing abnormal to be normal /acceptability/ suitability/ adequacy/ satisfactoriness/ tolerability/ appropriateness/ proper/ good/ correct/ appropriate/ right/ apt/ apposite/ fitting/ routine/ regular/ everyday/ customary/ standard)
~ The serial killers did not strike me as the epitome of evil but the banality of evil. {Investigation Discovery, TV Series}

-It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us- the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil {Collins Quotations} (believing abnormal to be normal/ that evil is par for the course if such were the circumstances they were raised in)
~ What could be more depraved and inhumane than setting someone on fire? …show more content…
(A jury is a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial verdict (a finding of fact on a question) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgement {Wikipedia}/ bench/ panel/ board/ adjudicators/ judges/ panel of adjudicators/ panel of judges/ board of adjudicators/ board of judges)
~ Jurors are inclined to be deciders and not deliberators. They don’t want to get involved with the nuances of the case. {Crime Investigation, TV Channel}
~ But you don’t see me coming back to explain such things to an old fellow in a wig and twelve respectable tradesmen, do you? {Joseph Conrad- ‘The Secret Sharer’}

-There was no verdict; it was a hung jury. (A hung jury is a trial jury that cannot reach a unanimous or near unanimous verdict {wise GEEK}/ deadlocked jury/ impasse/ stalemate)
-It is not merely of some importance but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done {Viscount Gordon Hewart} (the administering of deserved punishment or reward/the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness: to uphold the justice of a cause {Dictionary.com fairness/ impartiality/ righteousness/ reasonableness/ even-handedness/ honesty/ integrity/ uprightness/ rightness/ justness/ fair dealing validity/ legitimacy/ rightfulness/ acceptability/ lawfulness/