Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity...

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one ... So long as one sees killing as wrong there is no need to waste time with the deterrent argument, since it would be nonsense to try to prevent a theoretical evil in the future by perpetrating an actual one in the present.

Auberon Waugh Quote About Evil, Long, Trying: Judicial Execution Can Never Cancel...

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