Death Penalty Cases

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“For ‘tis not in mere death that men die most.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

“[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.”
—William Frist (b. 1952)

“I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)