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Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Der Tod ist nicht nur eine ungewöhnlich schwere Strafe, ungewöhnlich in seinen Schmerzen, in seiner Endgültigkeit und in seiner Größe, sondern er dient keinem Strafzweck mehr als einer weniger schweren Strafe.

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