![]() ![]() “If you mean that in earnest,” said the young man, “I’ll take the bet, but I would stay not five but fifteen years.” “It’s not true! I’ll bet you two millions you wouldn’t stay in solitary confinement for five years.” Struck the table with his fist and shouted at the young man: Nervous in those days, was suddenly carried away by excitement he To live anyhow is better thanĪ lively discussion arose. Life, I would certainly choose the second. “The death sentence and the life sentence are equally immoral,īut if I had to choose between the death penalty and imprisonment for It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wantsĪmong the guests was a young lawyer, a young man of five-and-twenty. ![]() “Both are equally immoral,” observed one of the guests, “for theyīoth have the same object - to take away life. Humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out Capital punishment kills a man at once, but ![]() Judge à priori, the death penalty is more moral and more humane ![]() Tried either the death penalty or imprisonment for life, but if one may “I don’t agree with you,” said their host the banker. ![]()
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