Using the law to perpetuate injustice

The words of Jesus, "Let the one among you who is without sin throw the first stone" (Luke 8:7), remind me of a poem that goes:

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When somebody yields to temptation And breaks one of God's laws, We don't care about how he was tempted, Nor do we consider how he fought;

His name becomes food for the jackals - For us who have never been caught!

Jesus directs His words to a crowd led by the scribes and Pharisees, self-proclaimed enforcers and interpreters of the law. They demand that Jesus apply the full extent of the law to a woman allegedly caught in the act of adultery. Jesus must have sensed the hypocrisy in their actions and their feigned concern for justice. If they saw the woman committing the crime, where is her partner? She could not have committed adultery alone.