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“Why do people do cruel things to one another? And why does God Permit it?”
― Joel F. Harrington, The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century

“The even more fundamental distinction between most developed societies today and Nuremberg in the sixteenth century is the notion of inalienable human rights. This other relatively late development in the public sphere, though still contested, provides at least a theoretical and legal basis for limiting state coercion and violence, even in the pursuit of justice. Authoritarian regimes of the past and present recognize no such externally imposed restrictions, nor do they place the sovereignty of the individual on par with, let alone above, the sovereignty of the state. Meister Frantz would have agreed that even apprehended criminals had a right to due process, but the idea that this right included protection of their bodies following incriminating evidence or conviction for a serious offense would have been an incomprehensible concept.”
― Joel F. Harrington, The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century

“What I feel for him runs bone deep—woven into the parts of me I can’t unmake. It lives in the marrow, in the quiet spaces between who I was and who I’ve become. It aches.”
― Rachael Chadwick, Bone Deep