Accepting Quote by William J. Brennan
“With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the state punishes with death, it denies the humanity and dignity of the victim and transgresses the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. That day will be a great day for our country, for it will be a great day for our Constitution.”
![“I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day…” quote by Harry A. Blackmun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b56/harry-a-blackmun-19399_abandoned_i-am-more-optimistic-though-that-this-co_2574521.jpg)
