Cesare Beccaria quoteCesare Beccaria [1738-1794]
Italian Judge 
Quote rank: 110
| If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant. |
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