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 ThereofDraco, 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.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.