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       Glossario 
        minimo dei termini giuridici americani e non solo : citazioni  "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  "If thou 
        forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are 
        ready to be slain" Proverbs, 24: 11 KJV  "Blessed 
        are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy" Matthew 5:7 KJV   "I am 
        the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: 
        I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." Isaiah 
        45: 6-7 KJV  "An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Martin Luther King Jr.  "An eye 
        for an eye and the whole world would soon be blind." "chi salva una Vita umana, salva il mondo intero" Il Talmud "Chi uccide un essere umano è come se uccidesse tutta l'umanità, chi salva una vita umana è come se salvasse tutta l'umanità" Il Corano "The licenses for genocide, slavery, racism, are all right there in the holy text." Christopher Hitchens: "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court!" "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."  "(…) 
        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." "… 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."  "Where, 
        after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to 
        home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the 
        world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighbourhood 
        he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office 
        where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child 
        seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. 
        Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. 
        " "After 
        20 years on the high court, I have to acknowledge that serious questions 
        are being raised about whether the death penalty is being fairly administered 
        in this country."  "Un diritto 
        umano è qualcosa che tutti gli uomini devono avere ovunque ed in ogni 
        momento, qualcosa di cui nessuno possa essere privato senza che ciò sia 
        un grave affronto alla giustizia, qualcosa che è di proprietà di ogni 
        essere umano semplicemente perché egli è umano."  "Extremism 
        in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice 
        is no virtue." "We hold 
        these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that 
        they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; 
        that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that 
        to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving 
        their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any 
        form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right 
        of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, 
        laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in 
        such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and 
        happiness."  *Le 
        traduzioni sono di Claudio Giusti ___________ NB: 
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