Death Penalty Act

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

    “She sought her happiness exclusively in the happiness of others. Death gave her her own.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “The Reverend Samuel Peters ... exaggerated the Blue Laws, but they did include “Capital Lawes” providing a death penalty for any child over sixteen who was found guilty of cursing or striking his natural parents; a death penalty for an incorrigible son; a law forbidding smoking except in a room in a private house; another law declaring smoking illegal except on a journey five miles away from home,...”
    —Administration for the State of Con, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “quaking muscles in the act of birth,
    Between her legs a pigmy face appear,
    And the first murderer lay upon the earth.”
    —Alec Derwent Hope (b. 1907)