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William J. Brennan

"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."

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"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."

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"Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!"

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"Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?"

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"Routine physical punishment such as spanking teaches a toddler that might makes right and that it is fine to hit when one is stronger and can get away with it."

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"Murderer ain't fit to eternity."

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"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."

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"I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again."

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"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."

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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."

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"I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment."

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"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."

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