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        glossario dei termini giuridici americani : citazioni   
         "It's 
        not always so messy here. Sometimes it is worse"  "Vengeance 
        is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord" Romans 12:19 KJV  "and 
        ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" John 8:32 
        KJV  "Therefore 
        whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And 
        the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him." 
        Genesis 4:15 KJV  "But 
        let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more 
        than these cometh of evil." Matthew 5 37, KJV  "Ye have 
        heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 
        But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite 
        thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also." Matthew 5 38 
        - 39 KJV  "So I 
        returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: 
        and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; 
        and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter." 
        Ecclesiastes 4:1 KJV "If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain" Proverbs, 24: 11 KJV  "Rescue 
        those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling 
        to the slaughter" Proverbs, 24: 11 ESV  "Blessed 
        are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy" Matthew 5:7 KJV  "I am 
        the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: 
        I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." Isaiah 
        45: 6-7 KJV  "Thou 
        shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in 
        the land of Egypt" Exodus 22:21 KJV  "And 
        David danced before the LORD with all his might" Samuel 6:14 KJV "An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" Martin Luther King Jr.  "An eye 
        for an eye and the whole world would soon be blind." "chi salva una Vita umana, salva il mondo intero" Il Talmud  "Chi uccide 
        un essere umano è come se uccidesse tutta l'umanità, chi salva una vita 
        umana è come se salvasse tutta l'umanità" "Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and He placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with His arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that He separated the races shows that He did not intend for the races to mix." Judge Leon Bazile  "The 
        licenses for genocide, slavery, racism, are all right there in the holy 
        text." "We live in a Christian society and the Bible says 'an eye for an eye'. The Bible also talks about forgiveness somewhere but this is surely a printing error, do not be fooled. Only an idiot would read the entire Bible anyway, instead of just picking out the parts that agree with him." Edward Fella "Oyez, oyez, oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court!"  "The 
        laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in 
        extraordinary times."  "Twenty 
        years have passed since this Court declared that the death penalty must 
        be imposed fairly, and with reasonable consistency, or not at all, see 
        Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), and, despite the effort of the 
        States and courts to devise legal formulas and procedural rules to meet 
        this daunting challenge, the death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, 
        discrimination, caprice, and mistake. (…) From this day forward, I no 
        longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years 
        I have endeavoured -- indeed, I have struggled--along with a majority 
        of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would 
        lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavour. 
        Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion that the desired level 
        of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, 
        I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the 
        death penalty experiment has failed. It is virtually self evident to me 
        now that no combination of procedural rules or substantive regulations 
        ever can save the death penalty from its inherent constitutional deficiencies. 
        The basic question--does the system accurately and consistently determine 
        which defendants "deserve" to die?--cannot be answered in the affirmative."  "After 
        20 years on the high court, I have to acknowledge that serious questions 
        are being raised about whether the death penalty is being fairly administered 
        in this country."  "People 
        who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty"  "(…) 
        the [American] legal system is divided into two separate and unequal system 
        of justice: one for the rich, in which the courts take limitless time 
        to examine, ponder, consider, and deliberate over hundreds of thousands 
        of bits of evidence and days of testimony, and heard elaborate, endless 
        appeals and write countless learned opinions; the other for the poor, 
        in which hasty guilty pleas and brief hearings are the rule and appeals 
        the exception."  "Sunlight 
        is the best disinfectant."  "Nothing 
        more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering" 
         "… the 
        history of capital punishment for homicides … reveals continual efforts, 
        uniformly unsuccessful, to identify before the fact those homicides for 
        which the slayer should die…. Those who have come to grips with the hard 
        task of actually attempting to draft means of channeling capital sentencing 
        discretion have confirmed the lesson taught by history…. To identify before 
        the fact those characteristics of criminal homicides and their perpetrators 
        which call for the death penalty, and to express these characteristics 
        in language which can be fairly understood and applied by the sentencing 
        authority, appear to be tasks which are beyond present human ability." 
         "it surely is beyond dispute that if the death penalty cannot be administered consistently and rationally, it cannot be administered at all" Justice Harry Blackmun  "Where, 
        after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to 
        home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the 
        world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighbourhood 
        he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office 
        where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child 
        seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. 
        Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. 
        " *Le 
        traduzioni sono di Claudio Giusti ___________ NB: 
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