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Excerpt from Life Imprisonment Vs the Death Penalty: To the Honorable Members of the Senate and Lower House of the Fifty-Eight General Assembly and to the Chairman and Members of the Judiciary Committees Thereof
Draco, the first compiler of the Penal Code of Greece, made death the penalty for all offenses. When asked why he did so, replied: The least offenses deserve death, and I can impose no worse for the higher crimes.
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