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A hung jury in a case this straightforward is exactly what happens when a culture treats personal responsibility as optional. Three children are dead. The facts are not complicated. Yet the system now spends days trying to decide whether evil can be explained away instead of judged.Salem is an old punchline, but the point is serious. Courts used to recognize that some acts are so monstrous they demand a verdict, not an excuse. Today we get deadlock, more instructions, and the possibility of a mistrial while families wait.If the law cannot call this what it is, the public will keep losing faith in it. Justice that cannot decide is not mercy. It is surrender.