“To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomp…”

“To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Title: Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Part 1, Chapter 2 (tr. Frederick Whishaw, 1887)

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Dostoevsky, Fyodor. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky

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