“The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.”

I love Cesare Beccaria. His philosophy on crime and punishment is the most inspiring work of all time.

Nice.

So bad! IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE LOLOL?

Stalin / Lenin, Mao, Hitler were all prime personal examples of policy within their particular forms of socialism that illustrates the quote's accuracy. I am personally aware of the occupying statist infesting this land's implementation of the quote's subject matter. Such practice has been tied to certain political leaders of today who act as privateers. The subject matter may also be expanded to include such incidences as Epstein and Soleimani.