death penalty, n.Definitions

The Death penalty is a deterrent — It saves lives.

The Death penalty is to be expiated only by death.

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

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

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.

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.

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