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capital punishment
«The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.»
Author: Geoffrey Fisher
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capital punishment, controversy, distressing, meditating, unfair
«If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| Keywords:
capital, capital punishment, in the United States, Old Testament, reliable, testament, the matter
«I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
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capital, capital punishment, killer, kills, punishment, The Killer, The Killers
«Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
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Imprisonment
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capital punishment, dungeon, dungeons, imprisonment, murderer
«The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
butcheries, butchery, capital, capital punishment, damage, degrade, degraded, degrades, in truth, moonshine, state of nature, The Argument
«Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.»
«Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do not fulfill them are subjected to personal injuries, the loss of liberty, and even capital punishment.»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Law and lawyers,
Rules
| Keywords:
capital punishment, fulfill, injuries, personal liberty, subjected
«Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
administered, administering, administers, capital, capitals, capital punishment, crime, Crime and Punishment, effective, measure, preventive, Preventives, prior, punishment