Narratively speaking, is it safe to assume Light didn’t kill falsely accused criminals?

in real life, that's simply not possible, but from a narrative point of view it confused me that L and Near never point this out? also that when Light kills people that aren't in jail (misa's parent's killer, guy who was accused of sexual assault 8 times) both of them were right on the money. also canonically Light doesn't love Misa because she kills innocent people who don't pose a threat, but it would be super hypocritical (it already is, but it would be even more) if light was killing people who were falsely accused. it just seems like from a story point of view he didnt, but lmk if that's wrong