![[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.](/assets/img/quote-photos/by-requiring-that-an-execution-be-relatively-painless-we-necessarily-protect-t.jpg)
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punishment affection natural
But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly. It is as natural as that I should love those who show me affection, or submit to punishment when I feel it is deserved. Charlotte Bronte
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God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it . Charles Caleb Colton
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Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future. Richard G. Scott
punishment wish might
I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me. Bram Fischer
punishment words-of-wisdom rooms
The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime." David Shore
punishment unjust administration
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment. Bryan Stevenson
punishment crime certainty
Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment Cesare Beccaria
punishment joy endless
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy. Charles Spurgeon
punishment people administration
Punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment. Chanakya
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There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.
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No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society. Charles E. Wilson
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Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering Charles Dickens
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I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
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The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.
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There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.
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One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick. Don Cheadle
suffering care planets
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Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill. David Amram
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear. C. L. R. James
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I've never been so on trend in my entire life. Jane Krakowski
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