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Nuovo
glossario minimo dei termini giuridici americani - appendice QUOTATIONS - CITAZIONI (Le traduzioni sono di Claudio Giusti). "Vengeance
is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord" Romans 12:19 KJV "and
ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" John 8:32
KJV "Therefore
whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And
the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him."
Genesis 4:15 KJV "Vengeance
belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord." Hebrews 10, 30
KJV "To me
belongeth vengeance, and recompense" Deuteronomy 32, 35 KJV "But let
your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than
these cometh of evil." Matthew 5 37, KJV "Ye have
heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite
thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." Matthew 5 38 - 39
KJV "So I
returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun:
and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter;
and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter."
Ecclesiastes 4:1 KJV "Rescue
those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling
to the slaughter" Proverbs, 24: 11 ESV Callins
v Collins No. 93-7054, February 22, 1994 Supreme Court Justice Blackmun
, dissenting. "Twenty years have passed since this Court declared that
the death penalty must be imposed fairly, and with reasonable consistency,
or not at all, see Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), and, despite
the effort of the States and courts to devise legal formulas and procedural
rules to meet this daunting challenge, the death penalty remains fraught
with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake. (…) From this
day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For
more than 20 years I have endeavoured -- indeed, I have struggled--along
with a majority of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules
that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death
penalty endeavour. Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion
that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for
regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply
to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. It is virtually
self evident to me now that no combination of procedural rules or substantive
regulations ever can save the death penalty from its inherent constitutional
deficiencies. The basic question--does the system accurately and consistently
determine which defendants "deserve" to die?--cannot be answered in the
affirmative." Lois Forer
"Money and Justice" New York, WW Norton, 1984, p 9 "(…) the [American]
legal system is divided into two separate and unequal system of justice:
one for the rich, in which the courts take limitless time to examine,
ponder, consider, and deliberate over hundreds of thousands of bits of
evidence and days of testimony, and heard elaborate, endless appeals and
write countless learned opinions; the other for the poor, in which hasty
guilty pleas and brief hearings are the rule and appeals the exception."
McGautha
v. California, 402 U.S. 183, 1971. John Marshall Harlan II, U.S. Supreme
Court Justice, "… the history of capital punishment for homicides … reveals
continual efforts, uniformly unsuccessful, to identify before the fact
those homicides for which the slayer should die…. Those who have come
to grips with the hard task of actually attempting to draft means of channeling
capital sentencing discretion have confirmed the lesson taught by history….
To identify before the fact those characteristics of criminal homicides
and their perpetrators which call for the death penalty, and to express
these characteristics in language which can be fairly understood and applied
by the sentencing authority, appear to be tasks which are beyond present
human ability." la pubblicazione dell'appendice prosegue domani *Claudio
Giusti ha avuto il privilegio e l'onore di partecipare al primo congresso
della sezione italiana di Amnesty International e in seguito è stato uno
dei fondatori della World Coalition Against The Death Penalty ___________ NB:
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