When capital defendants have lawyers advocating for them, hopefully jurors will take more time in deciding whether to recommend the ultimate punishment of death. (katzjustice.com)
It has also classically held that in certain cases a deserved punishment of death may be remitted but that the grounds for possible clemency are particular, not universal. (firstthings.com)
Indeed, to do good to a little child is to do good to Jesus himself, while to cause injury or hurt to one is a moral and spiritual calamity, deserving the punishment of death itself. (religion-online.org)