More than 50 years back it were particularly the USA who insisted upon due process in the Nuremberg trials for the Nazi leaders when others of the Allies spoke for execution without trial. Yes, they even had a defense with all rights and there have been acquittals (3 out of 22 in the first big trial) due to guilt being not proven beyond reasonable doubt. The USA should not want to fall below the standards they set then.

Others, including Winston Churchill, Britain's prime minister during the war, wanted to dispense with trials altogether and simply execute the accused Nazis. But Jackson and other prosecutors believed that the only way for a process of healing to occur within Germany was to lessen the stigma of collective guilt and to focus on the principle of individual responsibility through a trial process.

This thought from a Nuremberg Trials website seems still to be valid to me today.

Wolfgang