God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.

HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are
four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and
praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain
whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for
advantage of the lawyers.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

'Death, is a Kiss from God