Steve Allen Quotes
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
Allen, Steve. Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality. Prometheus Books, 1990, p. 43.
Although this is generally followed as a legal principle in America, states like Texas have executed felons who most other jurisdictions would see as Coke’s “mad man.”
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.
It would have been a great shock to her that 200 years later America was among the world leaders in capital punishment and England would have abolished it.
Kozinski was a supporter of captial punishment, but beileved it important that society was very slear about what it was doing. Executing a man is a very brutal process, and shen society determines that it is necessary, it shoud face the fact and the reality of the decision it is making. Hence he favored public executions
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen was an American television personality, radio personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, and writer. In 1954, he achieved national fame as the co-creator and first host of The Tonight Show, which was the first late night television talk show.
