If lawmakers propose lifetime imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty, the Japanese public is not likely to reject it.

Does reform mean picking on grandpa and grandma?

Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fra

Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment