Note 113 — Chapter XX · BLOOD-REVENGE AND COMPENSATION—THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH
Reading edition
Hetzel, Die Todesstrafe, p. 71 sqq. Günther, Die Idee der Wiedervergeltung, i. 271. Lactantius, Divinæ Institutiones, vi. (‘De vero cultu’) 20 (Migne, Patrologiæ cursus, vi. 708): “… occidere hominem sit semper nefas, quem Deus sanctum animal esse voluit.”