I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
Most Americans recognize that whatever the government program is, no matter how essential it is, it's waste.
There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently - were proper instruments for incentivizing the judiciary. That's what the 'kids for cash' judges were apparently experimenting with.
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death.
I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
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