“Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.”
George Bernard Shaw
“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fra”
Thomas Jefferson
“It really explains a lot. His cavalier attitude towards imprisonment and even death penalties for people who make the same mistakes with drugs he once personally made, his relentless drive to subvert Democracy via election fraud, his removal of basic human rights for all Americans via the Patriot Act, his support of monopolization of all American Business, his tax giveaways to the wealthy while joblessness and poverty are at a level not seen since the days of Herbert Hoover, and his drive towards world domination via a refusal to build consensus with the rest of the world, have all been written off as neo-conservatism, but in reality, even the hardest of right wing ideologies couldn't account for all of the President's behavior.”
David Bernard
“She made it clear on the day she announced it. She commuted all death sentences to life imprisonment. Now the people are confused because of all the varieties added into it. But whatever it is, the government should implement the law.”
Dante Jimenez
“If lawmakers propose lifetime imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty, the Japanese public is not likely to reject it.”
Shizuka Kamei
“Here, the president seeks not merely to detain temporarily but to dispense life imprisonment and death through a judicial system of his own design.”
Neal Katyal
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
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