Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.
Death is a very important part of life.
It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.