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"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders." -- Albert Camus

By Marks & Katz, LLC

The Death Penalty News ("DPN") blog -- which sadly is over-riddled with cookies, popups and a mousetrap, so I do not post its automatic link here, but instead spell it out as deathpenaltynews[dot]blogspot[dot]com -- has a great list of quotes about the death penalty, running from Sister Helen Prejean's spot-on quote below, to Justice Scalia's chilling quote that follows it. Sidetracking the quotes, though -- as addressed further below -- is whether the quotes are misquotes, even if they capture the essence of the speaker's words.  I met Sister Prejean at an NACDL-sponsored gathering at the Capitol around 1994. When I went to speak with Sister Prejean after her talk -- asking how to reconcile her message against government-sponsored killing with killing through warfare -- she drew me fully into her sphere both with her spirit and with her taking me by the forearm...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).