Jodi Picoult Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. May 19, 1966
Birthday: May 19
You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?
topic: Mean, Simple, Thinking, Moral Lessons, Heinous Crimes
