As for me, if ever I come to the estate I will change the whole system, I will run no risks of such human wreck and ruin as this--" His voice faltered.
"But," he resumed, speaking steadily again, "I ought to warn you that such considerations as these will not affect my judgment of this particular case.

In the first place, I have no quarrel with capital punishment as such.

I do not believe we could rightly give it up.

Your attitude properly means that wherever we can legitimately feel pity for a murderer, we should let him escape his penalty.

I, on the other hand, believe that if the murderer saw things as they truly are, he would himself _claim_ his own death, as his best chance, his only chance--in this mysterious universe!--of self-recovery.