Politics of Crime and Economic Change

[Carl Remick]

> I see this in terms of a basic value-system, where all members of
> society have inalienable rights, such as are laid out in the Universal
> Declaration of Human Rights.  The state should no more put someone to
> death than it should permit people to go hungry, or go without a roof
> over their head.  It's not a measure of the humanity of the murderer,
> it's a measure of the humanity of the society that would itself be a
> murderer.

Beautifully put, Paul.

Carl Remick