"The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence."

Death, Light, Prejudice, Risk

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"The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence."

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"Death is softer by far than tyranny."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

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"Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it."

Pope John Paul II, Polish Clergyman

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"What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value."

Millicent Fawcett, British Activist

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"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, American Psychologist

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"A few cold words on yonder stone, A corpse as cold as they can be - Vain words, and mouldering dust, alone - Can this be all that's left of thee? O, no! thy spirit lingers still Where'er thy sunny smile was seen: There's less of darkness, less of chill On earth, than if thou hadst not been.Thou breathest in my bosom yet, And dwellest in my beating heart; And, while I cannot quite forget, Thou, darling, canst not quite depart."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes."

Robert Bolt, British Playwright

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"When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life."

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed."

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"To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law."

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"The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend."

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"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution."

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"We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision."

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"Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject."

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"Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so."

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