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Though no one can prove that the death penalty will actually reduce crime, Koch asserts that the death penalty "must be available to punish crimes of cold-blooded murder, cases in which any other form of punishment would be inadequate and, therefore, unjust." In effect, Koch excludes as "unjust" any policy which might achieve the same decrease in crime without putting offenders to death. It is a crime that a Democrat could justify a state which can sacrifice the lives of its citizens as the means...
...angered jurors decided to punish the school: "You know how your mama used to whip you down?" explained Jury Forewoman Melanie Mims. And Juror Darryell Howell added, of the university's treatment of Kemp, "We don't want this to ever happen again...
Galvin strongly criticized proposed Federal cuts in student aid and President Reagan's proposed tax bill, parts of which he said were "designed to affect this university--designed to punish this university...
...like our Puritan forefathers, we New Englanders need to punish ourselves, and to insulate ourselves from the heathen. By banding together to affirm our allegiance to the Almighty Sox-Bruins-Celts, we share a communal misery (and occasionally a communal jubilation) that confirms our faith and purifies our sporting souls...
Pretty gruesome stuff, but none of it's in the play. Most of the performance takes place after Creon discovers that it was Antigone, his son's fiance, who buried the body of Polynices. Now he must decide how to punish her. He chooses the death penalty. Bad move, as the seer Tiresias tells Creon, because decreeing the death penalty gets one prematurely sent to to Hades. Acting like a god isn't advisable in Greek drama, and in the end Creon pays for it. His son and wife both commit suicide...