Not who you're looking for? Others named Capital Punishment: legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state · 1925 film by James P. Hogan · 2003 studio album by Unit:187 · 1998 studio album by the Big Pun
“The abolition of capital punishment, surely coming, is delayed by God's edictf, "He that sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed," and God's servants have ever been the opponents of this humane reform. Witchcraft has been believed in and men and women have been killed because God said, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."”
“I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.”
“Death penalty: The death penalty will not solve the problem of crime, but it is more than merely symbolic. There are some people who commit murder that so subvert society that they deserve nothing less than a death sentence. I believe, as does the Supreme Court, that some people will be deterred by it.”
“Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.”
“I prithee sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king? And resolution thus fubbed as it is with the rusty curb of old father Antic the law? Do not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief.”
“Society should not be the Angel of Death. We should not be servants of death. The law should celebrate, glorify, sanctify life, always life.”
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