![]() ![]() It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if it should so desire."Īmong the company was a lawyer, a young man of about twenty-five. "They're both equally immoral," remarked one of the guests, "because their purpose is the same, to take away life. ![]() Who is the more humane executioner, one who kills you in a few seconds or one who draws the life out of you incessantly, for years?" Execution kills instantly, life-imprisonment kills by degrees. "I myself have experienced neither capital punishment nor life-imprisonment, but if one may judge a priori, then in my opinion capital punishment is more moral and more humane than imprisonment. Some of them thought that capital punishment should be replaced universally by life-imprisonment. They found it obsolete as a means of punishment, unfitted to a Christian State and immoral. The guests, among them not a few scholars and journalists, for the most part disapproved of capital punishment. They talked among other things of capital punishment. ![]() There were many clever people at the party and much interesting conversation. ![]() The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study, recalling to his mind the party he gave in the autumn fifteen years before. ![]()
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