Punishment by Death: Its Authority and Expediency (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Cheever, George Barrell

9780656967018: Punishment by Death: Its Authority and Expediency (Classic Reprint)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0656967013 ISBN 13: 9780656967018

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Excerpt from Punishment by Death: Its Authority and Expediency

It is sometimes said that in that early period there were no prisons, and therefore it was necessary to kill the murderer, because they could not keep him. What then could they do with the thief, the robber, the house-breaker? By the same reasoning they must kill him, because they had no prisons in which to keep him. We think if they could build cities, they could also build prisons. The state of society in which the Tower of Babel could be erected, was not likely to suffer for want of a jail.

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