Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Hugo Adam Bedau

Born: September 23, 1926
Died: August 13, 2012 (aged 85)
Bio: Hugo Adam Bedau was the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Tufts University, and is best known for his work on capital punishment. He has been called a "leading anti-death-penalty scholar" by Stuart Taylor Jr.
Known for:
- In Spite Of Innocence (1992)
- From Critical Thinking to Argument
- Thinking and writing about philosophy (1996)
- Killing as Punishment (2004)






