"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen"
"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen"
"Law cannot persuade, where is cannot punish". Thomas Fuller
"One of the uses of our system of justice is to warn others... We are reforming, not the hanged individual, but everyone else." Michel de Montaigne
"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world." Mary Wollstonecraft
"The art of policing is, in order not to punish often, to punish severely" Napoleon
"Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft." Don Feder
Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise. To interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them. Voltaire
If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.
"If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call." - John McAdams, of the Marquette University/Department of Political Science
"If Capital Punishment is state sponsored murder, then any lesser punishment is a state sponsored murder of Justice." Saqib Ali
"It is Justice, not Laws that cures the society. And Capital Punishment is the only Justice that suits a murderer" Saqib Ali