Capital murder was a statutory offence of aggravated murder in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In the United States, a capital murder is any murder that makes the perpetrator eligible for the death penalty.
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“Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
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In diluted gold bars across the boulevard brag
Of proud, seamed faces with mercy and murder hinting
here, there, interrupting, all deep and debonair,
The pink paint on the innocence of fear;
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