[Curmudgeon]

Based on the comics of Silver Age Krypton and Kandor, a different judicial system.

While known crimes exist, you can be charged with an act that wasn't previously a crime and convicted by a majority vote (apparently of the voting citizens). Given the disparate sentences for some crimes, sentences are apparently decided by majority vote as well. Police were mostly robots under a human (Kryptonian) Chief of Police/Chief Executioner for a given city. The two offices are synonymous and the Chief can investigate not-yet crimes at his discretion. Pre-Phantom Zone, sentencing placed the convict in suspended animation, in orbit about the planet, for re-education as a useful citizen. The downside as Jor-El is shown thinking when he carries out the sentence on one convict, "Someday, we must find a way to bring these ships back from orbit."