Marquis de Sade Quote
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime—for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans - Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)
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