"so, how can god tell moses to order the children of israel "thou shalt not kill" and in the next moment, in an immediately consecutive and apparently inconsistent fashion, "you will deliver up to death whoever does not obey these commandments"?." – jacques derrida

"makes men lick the greasy floor of hell...just to see his own reflection" – x files

"but naturally, in the figurative sense...execution always attacks the head, the central seat of the cerebral and nervous systems, the presumed seat of consciousness and personality...the condemned man must be "normal," "responsible" and undergo punishment in full consciousness. he must die awake." – jacques derrida

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"the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." – fyodor dostoevsky