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State-administered
death is always a greater horror than any other by virtue of the methodical
reasoning that precedes it. French philosopher Albert Camus wrote that
"capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to
which no criminal's deed, however calculated, can be compared. "For
there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a
criminal who had warned his victim of the date on which he would inflict a
horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at
his mercy for months. Such a monster is not to be encountered in private
life." |