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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.George Bernard Shaw
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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.Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
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The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.Yevgeny Zamyatin
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The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.Joel Norris
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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?Victor Hugo
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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 would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.Albert Camus
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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 foremost through the floor into an empty space He does not sit with silent men who watch him night and day Who watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to pray Who watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey .Oscar Wilde
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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 now–this very instant–your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man–and that this is certain, certain!Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Agnes: "I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth." Tóti: "Yes." Agnes: "And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.' Tóti: "Yes. Tóti said carefully." Agnes: "Then Blondal and the rest are going against God. They're hypocrites. They say they are carrying out God's law but they are only doing the will of men.Hannah Kent
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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 penalty for child molestation, would serve as an excellent deterrent mechanism Debates on Human Rights to the perpetrator of the crime on the question of infliction of death penalty should be cordoned off taking into consideration the aftermath of sexual assault /rape of a child exposed to the Pandora’s pack of resilience .Unknown
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The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.Anton Chekhov