Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • God
  • Judgment
  • Punishment