As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
Most of them says "Forgiving is the big punishment" No.. Never... "Keeping quit is the biggest punishment
Look not at thieves eating meat, but look at them suffering punishment.
You will never be punished for making people die of laughter.
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
I do not punish my enemies with arrogance; I punish ,them, undoubtedly more subtle - with devoted respect.
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
And if there's bad behaviour," Mma Potokwane went on. "If there's bad behaviour, the quickest way of stopping it is to give more love. That always works, you know. People say we must punish when there is wrongdoing, but if you punish you're only puni...
For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punish...
Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also true that it would be desirable that they who hold the of...
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 vi...
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin.
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
