The “hanging judge” monicker from the title is perhaps an exaggeration. If so, very likely the only reason for that is that the ICTY Statute does not provide for a death sentence, which is not to say that some highly suspicious and convenient deaths may not have been engineered within its facilities. If the possibility of sending defendants to the gallows existed in the Tribunal, it is theoretically possible that by engaging Schomburg to dispense its justice ICTY could have found its own Dr Ronald Freisler. Surprisingly, in the scholarly article that follows we see Schomburg’s civilized face as he argues intensely for all the right juridical principles, often strangely overlooked by him in the courtroom. A propos this moving plea for procedural and substantive rectitude, one recalls a Serbian saying to the effect that “the devil knows what is right, but eschews it” (Зна ђаво шта је право, али неће).
Source: Wolfgang Schomburg: The Role of International Criminal Tribunals in
Promoting Respect for Fair Trial Rights (Northwestern University School of Law, Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights, Volume 8, Issue 1 [Fall 2009])