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Execution
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You can't bring someone back if he's been executed through a miscarriage of justice. And if there is a death penalty, then you need executioners, even if they merely push a button. That means that in punishing murderers, we inevitably create new ones.
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― Don't die before you're dead
― Don't die before you're dead
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Man of an hard heart! Hear me, Proud, Stern, and Cruel! You could have saved me; you could have restored me to happiness and virtue, but would not! You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant’s! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But God will show mercy, though you show none. And where is the merit of your boasted virtue? What temptations have you vanquished? Coward! you have fled fr
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― The Monk
― The Monk
