Listen to the voice of Justice and Reason. It tells us that human judgements are never so certain as to permit society to kill a human being judged by other human beings. Why deprive ourselves of any chance to redeem such errors? Why condemn yourself to helplessness when faced with persecuted innocence. I know there are those who say that execution is justified because it prevents a murderer from ever again committing the same crime. …
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…Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands. There is the sentence, and the whole awful torture lies in the fact that there is certainly no escape, and there is no torture in the world more terrible. Criminals do not die by hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. And I believe that God alone has the right to take life because he alone hives it.