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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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"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces."
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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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"I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again."
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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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"If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way."
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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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"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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"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."
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"Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers."
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"But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my 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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"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."
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"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."
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"The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end."
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"Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it."
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"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."
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