Capital Punishment
Some people feel that capital punishment is inherently cruel and unusual punishment.
For most of recorded history, capital punishments were often deliberately painful. Severe historical penalties include the breaking wheel, boiling to death, flaying, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing, stoning, execution by burning, dismemberment, sawing, scaphism, or necklacing.
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Famous quotes containing the words capital punishment, capital and/or punishment:
“Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)