Death Penalty Cases

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

“They can rule the world while they can persuade us
our pain belongs in some order.
Is death by famine worse than death by suicide,
than a life of famine and suicide ... ?”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

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

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