Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Epilogue (p. 421)
Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006)
“About this whole judgment there is the spirit of vengeance, and vengeance is seldom justice. The hanging of the eleven men convicted will be a blot on the American record which we shall long regret”
Profiles in Courage, Kennedy, p. 191.
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