Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons – including all the assassins – entertain grave misgivings.
Capital Punishment Quotes
Moreover, “legitimate defence can be not only a right but a grave duty for someone responsible for another’s life, the common good of the family or of the State”. Unfortunately it happens that the need to render the aggressor incapable of causing harm sometimes involves taking his life. In this case, the fatal outcome is […]
People who claim that sentencing a murderer to “life without the possibility of parole” protects society just as well as the death penalty ignore three things: (1) life without the possibility of parole does not mean life without the possibility of escape or (2) life without the possibility of killing while in prison or (3) […]
Guillotine, n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
I am, indeed, far from desiring to increase in this kingdom the number of executions; yet I cannot but think, that they who destroy the confidence of society, weaken the credit of intelligence, and interrupt the security of life; harass the delicate with shame, and perplex the timorous with alarms; might very properly be awakened […]
All crimes should be punished with humiliations- public exposure in ridiculous and grotesque situations- and never in any other way. Death makes a hero of the villian, and he is envied by some spectators and imitators.
If we are not our brother’s keeper, let us at least not be his executioner.
A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last ‘make a wish’.
Kill one, terrify a thousand.
It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
