#penalty

I wrote that certain things were leaving me nauseated. I said that judges made me feel that way. Not most of them but all of them. I said that you for example, the judge I'm writing this to, made me feel nauseated. The nausea came from understanding that people produced by every conceivable advantage got to decide whether someone like Jalen lived or died and what was worse was they never fucking seemed to decide that the person should live, that a person's life, any person, was more important than whether some fat fuck at a country club thought you were hard enough on crime or whether you continue to get sufficient reelection campaign contributions you worthless retarded piece of shit. Why should you be allowed to decide anything beyond what you have for lunch you mental infant? ↗

— Sergio De La Pava

#death-penalty #judges #sentencing #death

The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two blacks make a white, and that when a wrong has been done, it should be paid for by an equivalent suffering. It seems to the Philistine majority a matter of course that this compensating suffering should be inflicted on the wrongdoer for the sake of its deterrent effect on other would-be wrongdoers; but a moment's reflection will shew that this utilitarian application corrupts the whole transaction. For example, the shedding of blood cannot be balanced by the shedding of guilty blood. Sacrificing a criminal to propitiate God for the murder of one of his righteous servants is like sacrificing a mangy sheep or an ox with the rinderpest: it calls down divine wrath instead of appeasing it. In doing it we offer God as a sacrifice the gratification of our own revenge and the protection of our own lives without cost to ourselves; and cost to ourselves is the essence of sacrifice and expiation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#death-penalty #justice #punishment #wrongdoing #death

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#another #atheists #begin #believer #carried

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#been #death #demand #human #i

The penalty for exceeding the time limit is the forfeiture of the game. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#forfeiture #game #limit #penalty #time

What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent. ↗

— Michael Wilbon

#available #deterrent #enhance #indulge #penalty

He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics. ↗

— John Grisham

#death

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#government #death

I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death-penalty #justice #justice-system #legal-system #reasonable-doubt

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#death #death penalty #i #mock #penalty