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The killing of a criminal can be moral--but never its legitimation.
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which de ...
No, I have no thoughts about anything, even less am I feeling rebellious. That is the punishment, Martha, and I suppose that there ...
It is a strange, strange fate, and now, as I stand face to face with death I feel just as if they were going to kill a boy. For I ...
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who ...
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow th ...
It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day's work.
[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... ...
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