Comment & Debate
Patrick Henry: “Is life so dear… as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! …but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”[1]
“In Defense Of Capital Punishment”. The Tech. 2 Mar 1999 – I subscribe to this call even today and suggest I would do so as a criminal. What is life without liberty? Unacceptable at best. So, carrying through with Ring’s logic might leave one with a substantial dilemma. The faction of us mentioned before offer an answer: The criminal who so grievously encroaches upon another’s basic right to life summarily and completely forfeits his right to the same.