Death Penalty Act

Famous quotes containing the words death, penalty and/or act:

    “Parents shall not be put to death for their children, nor shall children be put to death for their parents; only for their own crimes may persons be put to death.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 24:16.

    “That’s the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness—someone else always suffers for them.”
    —Alfred Sutro (1863–1933)

    “And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink,
    As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
    This pantomime
    Of compensating act and counter-act,
    Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
    My ablest time.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)