Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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)