Capital Punishment Quotes
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.
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?
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.
The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.
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.
Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.
