Death Penalty Cases

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

“O Lord, methought what pain it was to drown,
What dreadful noise of waters in my ears!
What sights of ugly death within my eyes!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“So the people will pay the penalty for their kings’ presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

“I want in all cases to do right.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)