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We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.
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Mercy but murders pardoning those who kill.
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The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate ...
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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.
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A good hanging now and then
that entertains folk in the provinces and robs death of its glamour.
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When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.
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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 than not at all.
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Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out.
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harsh interrogation techniques.
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It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.
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Transformation Ideas are many a penny,executioners are few & lonely;They use their arsenal sharply .to bring out rewards unworldly.
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Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.
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Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.
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Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse
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They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.
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Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination."
"No, this is an execution."
"The difference would be ... ?"
"Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.
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We investigate, we prepare, we execute. We find them, we take them down, and then we piss on their ancestors' graves.
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All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.
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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.
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The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.
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[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors? ... Why shouldn't executions be public?
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Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.
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People are locked up in all sorts of ways.
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A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented.
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Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve.
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The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process ... Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.
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What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. The prospect of the gallows, too, makes them hardy and bold. Ah, it's a fine thing for the trade! Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!
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Death by hanging ... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
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Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.
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If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win?
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This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?
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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
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We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.
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Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.
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Twenty-eight men were on trial. If found guilty, they faced death by the grisly form of torture known as hanging, drawing and quartering. The most important of these were twenty-four who had sat as judges at the king's trial. Most of them had played other key roles in bringing the king to trial.
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It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.
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The futile and exhausting existence of a purgatory-like law enforcement system
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Ideas come from the mind, execution of those ideas come from the heart.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
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When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
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To the Aiel, it was not a war; it was an execution.
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Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit.
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The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
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Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell ... Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.
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The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.
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Capital punishment ... treats members of the human race ... as objects to be toyed with and discarded.
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Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
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Torture and other forms of stress were inflicted
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was determined to be 'cruel and unusual punishment'. He
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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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.
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It is mandatory from elementary school to attend public executions. Often classes would be cancelled so students could go.
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Obviously, they were not to torture anyone for their own pleasure unless the fucker just totally deserved it.
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Censorship & Torture.
Netherlands, Nuenen
August 17, 2016
P.C.M. Hermans
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The world itself is but a large prison, out of which some are daily led to execution.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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the death penalty, and the sooner the better.
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe
fear and awe of the State.
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You die, you go free.
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Making laws with penalties of death, and consequently
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For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.
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whether the condemned are disabled. We're supposed to sentence people fairly after fully considering their life circumstances, but instead we exploit the inability of the poor to get the legal assistance they need - all so we can kill them with less resistance.
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excoriated and burned, mapped and measured and meted
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From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill innocent individuals has dreadful consequences.
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We live in a world where one needs to choose - to be the victim or the executioner, and nothing else.
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I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.
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Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.
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A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
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Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.
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The tortured always remain tortured.
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The death sentence is a barbaric act.
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Death penalty is the number one killer of killers.
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Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.
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Some people are consumed with thoughts and memories from their past. Their mourning, regretting, rehashing, and begrudging doom them to life imprisonment in their painful past.
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the punishment inflicted for these peccadilloes.
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
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A single hour snatched from death outweighs a whole existence of tortures.
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It wasn't the execution per se; except for the warden's bizarre blue shirt, it had seemed as prosaic as getting a tetanus shot or a shingles vaccination. That was actually the horror of it. Something
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In American prisons, which are extraordinarily violent places, the most vicious form of punishment is simply to lock a person in an empty room for years with absolutely nothing to do. This emptying of any possibility of communication or meaning is the real essence of what violence really is or does.
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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
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Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
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I'm not interested until I see their execution.
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In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.
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I believe in the death penalty.
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Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The
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The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.
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Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit.
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achievements as sentencing a youth to have his hands cut off, his tongue torn out with pincers, and his body
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Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.
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To Wrench the human soul from its moorings, to immerse it in terrors, ice, flames, and raptures to such an extent that it is liberated from all petty displeasure, gloom and depression as by a flash of lightening: what paths lead to this goal? And which of them do so most surely?
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If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
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The evidence is clear that increasing the severity of punishment is a far less effective deterrent than increasing the perception that a person will be caught and sanctioned. With respect to interrogations, experiments reveal the benefits
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Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's committed and start to see a more sanitised version. A person like that starts to be seen as a victim.
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
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Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.
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Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
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His first memory is an execution.
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Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake ... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.