Death Penalty Cases

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

“Once one’s up against it, the precise manner of one’s death has obviously small importance.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“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)