be arbitrary

Williams' execution, Hoag-Fordjour added, also underscores how factors that should be "arbitrary" in a capital case, like race, poverty, mental health and the race of the victim, often dictate whether someone is convicted in a capital case and ultimately sentenced to death, disproportionately affecting "the most marginalized people in society — Black people, people of color, people with mental illness and poor people."

“We believe,” it said, “that the death penalty must not be arbitrary.”

“You don’t want to be arbitrary, cut off a swimming pool, a baseball field and let them stay vacant,” he said.

Eventually, however, Ellis threw the book at Franklin, the leaker, but let Rosen and Weissman go, agreeing with their lawyers that the statute is so frequently violated, yet so rarely enforced, that prosecuting them would be arbitrary and capricious.

October 2017 — The European Court of Human Rights finds Navalny’s fraud conviction in the Yves Rocher case to be “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable.”