"Execution kills instantly, life-imprisonment kills by degrees. Who is the more humane executioner, one who kills you in a few seconds or one who draws the life out of you incessantly, for years?"
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S. Koteliansky & J. M. Murray, tr., The Bet and Other Stories (Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1915)
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