death penalty, n.All

The Death penalty is, as the murder of a murderer, perhaps the same mistake as the child that strikes a chair it has collided with.

In Japan, death row inmates are held in solitary confinement and informed only hours before they are going to be hanged.

The guillotine was invented to create “equality in execution”, pushing aside cruel practices like drawing-and-quartering

In Ancient Rome, condemned prisoners were often executed onstage when "actors" were needed for death scenes in theater performances.

Since 1973, 156 people have been exonerated and freed from death row.

The Death penalty is definitely a deterrent to crime. Not one of the 162 killers executed in Kentucky has killed anyone since.

The Death penalty is a deterrent — It saves lives.

The Death penalty is not all bad — there's nothing wrong with any man that capital punishment can't cure.

The Death penalty is to be expiated only by death.

The Death penalty is not more for the credit of government than the death of patients is for the credit of physicians.

The Death penalty is morally acceptable — It is no sin to kill a killer.

The Death penalty is about teaching a people to inseparably connect a crime of a certain character with death, and thus to change the moral habits of a population such that the next age may remit this punishment.