Anton Chekhov Quotes About Capital Punishment

Quotes about: Capital Punishment

• Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

  Anton Chekhov

  Years, Punishment, Doe

  "The Bet". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

• The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it wants to.

  Anton Chekhov

  Government, Doe, Want

  "The Bet". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

• If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

  Anton Chekhov

  Execution, Prison, Capital Punishment

  "The Bet". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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