"Death penalty" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... case very much, and I don't wish any man to swing for me I have always disapproved of the death penalty. Probably, though, it will be brought in as manslaughter yes, almost certainly. There go, my child, and come back to me as soon as ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall
... The death penalty in Brazil is generally commuted except in the case of negroes, but this time it was to be suffered ...
— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne
... erected under the eaves of the cells. Though his relations and friends cried, "Our son is gone mad; his confession is but the outcome of his distemper and the raving of lunacy, and it is unlawful to inflict on him the death penalty," he continued to exclaim, "I am in my right mind, perfect in service and sacrifice." .... Now he had a sweet young child; and they, hoping to work upon his parental love, brought the boy to him that he might renounce his faith. But ...
— The Reconciliation of Races and Religions • Thomas Kelly Cheyne
... sharp-shooter." The Lieutenant in command, being somewhat puzzled, brought him to me, and I had to explain that if the offence, disobedience of orders in face of the enemy, was repeated he might incur the death penalty; whereat he looked very crestfallen. That afternoon he got permission, like Fred Herrig, to go after guinea-hens, which were found wild in some numbers round about; and he sent me the only one he got as a peace offering. ...
— Rough Riders • Theodore Roosevelt
... unusual punishments shall not be inflicted, but it is safe to affirm that punishments of torture, ... and all others in the same line of unnecessary cruelty, are forbidden by that Amendment to the Constitution."[11] Shooting as a mode of executing the death penalty was sustained over the objection that it ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin |
