“I would draw distinction between killing and detention and even corporal punishment. I think there is a difference not merely in quantity but also in quality. I can recall the punishment of detention. I can make reparation to the man upon whom I inflict corporal punishment. But once a man is killed, the punishment is beyond recall or reparation. God alone can take life, because He alone gives it.”
“The abolition of capital punishment, surely coming, is delayed by God's edict, "He that sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed," and God's servants have ever been the opponents of this h...”
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“The punishment of death is pernicious to society, from the example of barbarity it affords. If the passions, or the necessity of war, have taught men to shed the blood of their fellow creatures, the l...”
Capital punishment
“Death is an unusually severe and degrading punishment; there is a strong probability that it is inflicted arbitrarily; its rejection by contemporary society is virtually total; and there is no reason ...”
Capital punishment
“Bran Stark: Our way is the old way.”
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“Ned Stark: The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.”
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