I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people...The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.
All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder. - Albert Pierrepoint
All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.
- Albert Pierrepoint
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as… - Albert Pierrepoint
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as…
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy … - Albert Pierrepoint
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy …
Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge. - Albert Pierrepoint
Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.
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