The Argument That Capital Punishment Degrades The State Is Moonshine, For If That Were True Then It Would Degrade The State To Send Men To War.

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The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is
moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to
send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature:
a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage.
-- H.L. Mencken

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