I have been rereading through the Old Testament and have noticed that the legal system that God give the Hebrews is rather simple in comparison to what we have in the 21st century. My question is how did we get to the system we have today and is there a reasonable way to fix it.
Looking over the past several decades of my on recollection there are myriad cases that seem to be open and shut cases of particularity violent crime that seem to take years to litigate, while the system that Moses received might take weeks. I believe that our system is perverting justice for all parties. Whether that is letting obvious violent criminals go while waiting for trial or leaving mean on death row till they could die of old age.