Til ettertanke for de som måtte finne på å forsvare dødsstraff, spesielt de som bruker argumentet om at drap må straffes med døden ut fra gjengjeldelsesprinsippet ("øye for øye, tann for tann"):
But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
-Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1913-1960)
Jeg har tidligere skrevet noen av mine egne tanker omkring dødsstraff i denne bloggposten.
