How can we ignore that a high number of inmates commit suicide – self-inflicted capital punishment – to escape the inhumanity of their imprisonment? How can we ignore that many states today kill not only through legal punishment, but also by murdering and massacring in international or civil wars, or by allowing starvation?
很多犯人用自杀（自我执行死刑）的方式来逃避在狱中所受的非人道待遇，对此我们怎能视而不见？今天许多国家不仅通过法律惩戒的方式进行杀戮，而且还以国际或国内战争或任由饥荒蔓延的方式开展谋杀和大规模屠杀，我们又怎能麻木不仁？简言之，反对死刑不应该是终极目的，因为它只是争取人类尊严大规模斗争中的要素之一。