“Gone are the days, if they ever existed, when the person hanged for a crime

he did not commit could console himself (at least in the opinion of the

Archdeacon William Paley, DD, he of Natural Theology [1802] and the

comparison of the universe with a watch) that he died for his country. This

is a form of patriotism that has not really caught on.”

—-Theodore Dalrymple, writing about capital punishment in the March 2004

issue of The New Criterion