What does justice mean to you?
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Justice is fundamentally defined as the moral principle of rendering to each person what they are due, characterized by fairness, equity, and impartiality in treatment, law, and punishment. It ensures that individuals receive deserved outcomes, balancing rights, obligations, and consequences within a society or legal system.
Source: Merriam-Webster
This project asks people to move beyond the dictionary and answer the question personally: what does justice mean to you?
This website was created to spark ideas. We need to find a better way to build a better society. Punitive justice does not work, and justice as it is commonly defined is rarely served by our current system.
Instead of being reactive, we need to become proactive. We need to ask what justice should look like before harm happens, how communities can heal after harm, and how society can respond without simply repeating cycles of punishment.
This site was created by Mitesh Patel, the son of murder victim Hasmukh Patel, who was killed on November 21, 2004. Mitesh fought for clemency for his father’s killer, Christopher Young. He relied on life lessons taught by his father to see the good in Young. That small amount of good was enough for Mitesh to fight for clemency.
Sadly, clemency was denied, and Christopher Young was executed by the State of Texas in July 2018. Since then, Mitesh has spoken publicly about why he fought for clemency without forgiving Young. He firmly believes that a path forward does not require forgiveness.
Mitesh is an entrepreneur in Texas. While working on social justice, he is also an aspiring author. To him, justice cannot truly be served in a capital case, because justice means restoring a wrong — and you cannot unkill someone. Two deaths do not equal justice. A state-sanctioned execution creates another grieving family, forced to endure loss and continued victimization.