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“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”
“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”
“The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.”
“The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.”
“It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?”
“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty ...”
“For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet fore...”
“But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at allbut the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then no...”
“Agnes: "I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth." Tti: "Yes." Agnes: "And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'Tti: "Yes. Tti said carefully." Agnes: "Then Blondal and...”
“In the wake of prevalent child rape and child abuse cases reported and unreported; Infliction of Death Penalty for child rape irrespective of the degree of offence or homicide , and rigorous penalt...”
“The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.”
“But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all—but the certain knowledge that in an hour, then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then n...”
