“I live in Fresno which is a death sentence already.”
Gary Brecher at exile.ru/authors, 2002
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“All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death;”
De Profundis (1897)
He sighed slightly. “I always did fancy happy endings.”
Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 21 (p. 430)
Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 21 (p. 430)
“We do not want sentence of death with a stay of execution for six years.”
Speech in the House of Commons against a Government amendment allowing each county of Ulster to opt out of Home Rule for six years, 9 March 1914.
Der Stürmer, May 1939, quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" - Page 50 - by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997
I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273
Simple Verses (1891)
“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.”
These words, which have been widely attributed to Scalia, do not appear in any of his writings or statements. http://www.snopes.com/scalia-death-penalty-quote He nonetheless remarked in Herrera v. Collins (1993, concurring) that state courts had no obligation to review a death sentence on factual innocence grounds, an opinion that he repeated in In re Davis (2009, dissenting).
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