Capital Punishment in Germany

Famous quotes containing the words capital, punishment and/or germany:

“We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. Seven have been executed. The plan is better than the old one. It is quietly done. Only a few, at the most about thirty or forty, can witness [an execution]. It excites nobody outside of the list permitted to attend. I think the time for capital punishment has passed. I would abolish it. But while it lasts this is the best mode.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)