RE: Is the death penalty cruel and unusual punishment by definition?
January 17, 2014 at 10:01 pm
I agree with my hero Citizen Sade on the death penalty.
Citizen Sade Wrote:The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime—for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
Citizen Sade Wrote:To kill a man in a paroxysm of passion is understandable, but to have him killed by someone else after calm and serious meditation and on the pretext of duty honourably discharged is incomprehensible.