Most of the "civilized" nations of the world abandoned capital punishment long ago.
From his perch in the civilized confines of London, longtime nexus of capital markets and once home to Karl Marx, Andrew Wiles trades stocks in former workers' paradises of eastern Europe.
But until this so-called civilized nation of ours gets around to abolishing capital punishment altogether, then every group we can save -- be they retarded, young, left-handed, club-footed or red-headed -- is a step taken in the right direction.
Canada will no longer tolerate having its citizens put on death row by another country, as its foreign affairs minister decries capital punishment as being beneath "a civilized society".
The death penalty has no place in a civilized society.... [T]here is no way to impose capital punishment without betraying the moral standards that our justice system is theoretically designed to uphold.
When Steve Oomittuk was growing up, Point Hope, the once-great capital of the Arctic, had receded to the margin of the civilized world.
From all parts of the civilized world come complaints of industrial depression; of labor condemned to involuntary idleness; of capital massed and wasting; of pecuniary distress among businessmen; of want and suffering and anxiety among the working classes".
Beccaria was the first modern writer to advocate the complete abolition of capital punishment and may therefore be regarded as a founder of the abolition movements that have persisted in most civilized nations since his day.
