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Bog, 2020

Reflections on the guillotine

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Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the ‘obscene exhibition’ of capital punishment remains one of the most powerful, persuasive arguments ever made against the death penalty.

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2020

BogAlbert CamusPenguin