Benjamin Tucker Quotes
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
Tucker, Benjamin R. Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write One. New York: Benj. R. Tucker, Publisher, 1893, p. 79.
Einstein had changed his mind. He like almost everyone else at the time favored the death penalty, but in 1927 came to the new conclusion for the same reasons that many American politicians stated 70 years later. He had no compunctions against capital punishment for murderers who were dangers to society, but the potential error of the justice system led him to oppose state sanctioned execution. At the time the number of errors in capital cases that had been demonstrated were few. But as a scientist, Einstein knew that all human endeavors were prone to error. He was a strong law and order supporter however—see {588606}.
Rosemary Barkett, Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, was nominated to the U. S. Court of Appeals. In her previous role she had upheld over 200 death sentences. Nonetheless, Senator Hatch, an advocate of capital punishment, held up her swift confirmation.
Benjamin Ricketson Tucker was an American anarchist. A 19th-century proponent of individualist anarchism which he called "unterrified Jeffersonianism", Tucker was the editor and publisher of the American individualist anarchist periodical Liberty (1881–1908) as well as a member of the socialist First International.
