In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.
quote by Ida B. Wells
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
quote by Florence E. Allen
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Knife
Slit and
Slither knife
Penetrate in phallic push
To perforate the pulse of tissues in the flesh
Slice a vein to drain the unsuspecting victim
E’er they bleed and plea
Their scream
Of death
Copyright © Mark R Slaughter 2010
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poem by Mark R Slaughter
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An İdea About Our Life Here
we belong here
in fact we know the ins and
outs of the many doors
we open windows
and let light in
we know when to close
and when to hide
do not think that we
are different
we are all the same
breathing mechanisms
complete
with defenses and
offenses
do not be amazed
there are more to suffering
inside the room
when we cry we see to it
that no one hears
after all
it has always been our solemn
obligation to please
to deny
and then to confirm
what is not found here
and what is
supposedly
grand out there
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
quote by Pierre Corneille
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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
quote by Aldous Huxley
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The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another; it is never the given that confers superiorities: "virtue", as the ancients called it, is defined at the level of "that which depends on us". In both sexes is played out the same drama of the flesh and the spirit, of finitude and transcendence; both are gnawed away by time and laid in wait for by death, they have the same essential need for one another; and they can gain from their liberty the same glory. If they were to taste it, they would no longer be tempted to dispute fallacious privileges, and fraternity between them could then come into existence.
quote by Simone de Beauvoir
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When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.
quote by Joseph Wambaugh
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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
quote by George Will
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Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.
quote by Robert Burton
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A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.
quote by Eric Mascall
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I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did.
quote by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them.
quote by Preston Brooks
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She Stands By Her Son
He is a serial killer and awful things he has done
But his mother says he is not guilty and she stands by her son
A jury found him guilty but with their verdict she does not agree
She says my son is innocent i believe what he told me
That he did not murder those women the jury got it wrong
For him forty years in prison is forty years too long
For one completely innocent of any serious crime
The jury they erred badly they got it wrong this time
Though human blood and hair found on the bodies of the victims of foul play
According to the lab technicians did match his D N A
But there must have been a mix up and grieved am i to say
that for the crimes of some evil one my innocent son must pay
And all others say he is guilty she is the only one
To say that he is innocent she won't forsake her son.
poem by Francis Duggan
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What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
quote by Alphonsus Liguori
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The expectations are that when this investigation is completed, Fitzgerald will make the appropriate decision, which is not to charge Karl with any criminal offenses.
quote by Robert Luskin
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I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.
quote by Kenneth Starr
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These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. (describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial)
quote by Jeff Greenfield
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We must send a very clear message that if you enter our country illegally and then you commit one of these offenses, you will be dealt with harshly and you will pay a heavy price for your conduct.
quote by John Shadegg
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Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.
quote by Mel Carnahan
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