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Anyone that's ever had anything to do with the justice system understands that it is not intended to be fair.
Jury nullification is not "allowed", you simply can't punish a jury for returning a "not-guilty" verdict, for obvious reasons.
Disliking the victim is not a valid defense.
Honestly I'm so weary of this. Continue believing that juries make up the law as they like. Feel free to have the last word but I'm done.
Define "fair"
Have you ever heard of "fair and equal under the law"?
It's intent is indeed to be fair. Whether it functions as such is another matter, a topic for justice reformation. Which jury nullification is part of, hence why it exists. Even if life is generally not fair, most humans morally value fairness (even toddlers get this), and all harm reduction is progress and good - so even making the justice system slightly fairer by implementing jury nullification is a good thing and just.
It is allowed. If it wasn't allowed, they'd, for instance, declare a mistrial. They wouldn't accept it. They do.
Again, you're wrong. The person being an asshole is absolutely grounds for being murdered. Including the case where the woman set her husband on fire in their bed. And in most self defense cases. There's literally thousands of cases where people get off for this reason.
I never said that juries make up the law as they like. I said that jury nullification is indeed part of the role of a jury. You are the one with the stance that this must not be so, despite not understanding the legal system, declaring that the legal system is supposed to be unfair, and going around in multiple threads claiming this even when shown how wrong you are with case studies and discussion. I hope you are weary enough to stop spreading weird misinformation about how you pretend society exists, rather than how it actually exists. Just because you personally dislike juries for some unknown reason (parenting trauma? were your siblings and you never allowed to speak up?), doesn't mean you're correct in any capacity.