The death penalty is not retribution and is not deterrence.
The death penalty has to do with the place accorded to a voice by society, a voice that is missing.
CHICAGO -- Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens issued an unusually stinging criticism of capital punishment Saturday evening, telling lawyers that he was disturbed by "serious flaws."
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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