balance, golden mean, happy medium, middle ground

courthouse

scaffold (elevated platform on which a criminal is executed) / guillotine

convict, offender (person with a criminal record, person who has been convicted of a crime by a judicial body in the past)

(simile) stiff as a poker, stiff as a board (stiff, both physically and metaphorically, rigid, unbending)

(transitive with à) to do justice to (someone/something), to give (someone/something) their due

(derogatory) travesty of justice, mock trial, parody of justice

it's only fair! fair's fair!

(transitive) to fully appreciate, to appreciate someone's/something's true value, to recognise someone's/something's true worth

to dispense justice