One thing is for certain a dead man can not be a repeat offender. Most hard core criminals get outta the pokey and do something just as evil again, not the dead ones.

You can't hug your children with nuclear arms.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe