There's a summary of this essay on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Guillotine
This is a 1957 essay by Algerian-French philosopher Albert Camus.
> it is obviously no less repulsive than the crime,
Hard disagree. There are people who deserve death, and it is a good thing when it happens. It's just really dangerous to give the state such a power.
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There's a summary of this essay on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Guillotine
This is a 1957 essay by Algerian-French philosopher Albert Camus.