Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Human life being very precious, and the loss of it irrecoverable, capital punishments ought never to be inflicted, when others are adequate to the crime, or can answer the great end of the glory of God in the general advantage of the society. But some malefactors ought to be punished with death. ...
For more, see John Brown of Haddington on capital punishment and the value of human life.
For more, see John Brown of Haddington on capital punishment and the value of human life.