“I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform other people who try to reform me. and I believe that the only way to reform people is to kill ’em.”
About This Quote
From a letter to the Society for the Abolishment of Capital Punishment, Leavenworth, Kansas, May 23, 1930.
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