"Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment."
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"The execution of William Bonin was not the traditional gas chamber of the past. That has been ruled cruel and unusual. Instead, we have something that seems very kind and benign and technical; the injection of chemicals, Nazi-style."
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"Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed."
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"I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise."
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"Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process."
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