"Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent people are being sentenced to death......It is no answer to say that we are doing the best that we can. If this is the best our state can do, we have no business sending people to their deaths."

Source: Moshe Dayan's statement from the peaks of Massada (April 1973), as quoted in Avi Shlaim The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, 2000.