(Capital punishment) is … the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated . . can be compared … For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
Reblogged from Bufflehead Cabin
