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“Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.”

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Clive Stafford Smith

Clive Stafford Smith is a renowned British attorney known for his exceptional contributions to criminal defense. Born on July 9, 1959, he has dedicated his career to providing legal aid to those wrongfully convicted since the 1980s. more

“Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.”

Ifs Knows Humans May Doe Stills Emotion Violence Crime Cry Benefits Victim Killing Criminals Horrible Human Life Cherish Execution Vengeance Death Penalty Life Death

Author:Ramsey Clark

“Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration has suffered. It is the poor, the sick, the ignorant, the powerless, and the hated who are executed.”

Has Beens States Shows Poor Sick Ignorant Administration Hated Penalties Powerless Death Penalty Judicial Rehabilitation

Author:Ramsey Clark

“Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.”

Blood Crime Tears Blow Remorse Death Penalty Redeemed

Author:Victor Hugo

“I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.”

Thinking Knows States Belief Honor Killing Death Penalty Personal Beliefs

Author:John F. Kerry

“By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.”

Men Literature Faithful Another Man Being Faithful

Author:Edwin Louis Cole

“That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.”

Punishment Death Penalty Capital Punishment

Author:Scott Turow

“For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.”

World Made Hell Materials Death Penalty

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.”

Way Believe Said Views Murder Agree Revenge Punishment Execution Death Penalty Capital Punishment Deterrent

Author:Albert Pierrepoint

“They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove that man, the human species - we, in short - had the potential to construct an enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act.”

Men Humans Enough Pain Force Effort Happened Cost Prove Species Constructs Death Penalty Human Species Irrevocable

Book:The Drowned and the Saved

Source: The Drowned and the Saved

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