Immanuel Kant Quotes
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
Kant, Immanuel. The Metaphysics of Morals. Translated by Mary Gregor, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 142.
Sherman was distressed at the full due process and trials that had to be given to Confederate spies and guerrillas and wanted to execute them quickly as an example. He complained to the Judge Advocate General that his men were “losing prisoners in the swamp” which both of them realized meant the immediate execution of prisoners by soldiers and junior officers which Sherman did not like either. The Lincoln administration insisted on the full due process. Even after conviction, President Abraham Lincoln tended to pardon many of the condemned.
Louis Eugene Walcott. Malcolm X had criticized Elijah Mohammed for sexual behavior with staff.
He was one of the most articulate advocates for capital punishment.
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.
Recalling what the Oklahoma state medical examiner told him about electrocutions.
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential figures in modern Western philosophy.
