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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Punishment is lame, but it comes.