#punishment

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence

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It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

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Those retributive theories that hold the punishment somehow should match the crime face a dilemma: either punishment fails

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Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

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