A bit of both, I have to say. In my world, these things have started to conflate a little. Fundamentally, the law is the baseline for the conviction of criminals. I myself work in its enforcement after all.

But for the past 5 years, we have also had a God manifest in our world. Criminals have been dying of heart attacks in instances of divine judgement and our crime rate has sunken by an incredible 70%. God and the law are in accordance in their definition of a criminal, so the actual execution practice varies.