Quote by Woody Allen
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. – Woody Allen

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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom. – Italian Proverb

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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. – Claude Levi-Strauss

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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. – Ellen Key

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