"Ned Stark: The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."

"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated, can be compa…"

"A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge."

"What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real …"

"The abolition of capital punishment, surely coming, is delayed by God's edict, "He that sheddeth man's blood, by man …"

"The punishment of death is pernicious to society, from the example of barbarity it affords. If the passions, or the n…"

"Death is an unusually severe and degrading punishment; there is a strong probability that it is inflicted arbitrarily…"

"In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is a…"

"The traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude, presupposing full ascertainment of the identity and responsi…"

"Bran Stark: Our way is the old way."