The issue is not with the severity of punishment, it is with the continuity of punishment. This is from G.K.Chesterton, around 1907, "The Perpetuation of Punis

The issue is not with the severity of punishment, it is with the continuity of punishment. This is from G.K.Chesterton, around 1907, "The Perpetuation of Punishment": https://books.google.it/books?id=QtWvMclbR9YC&pg=PA504H7CQ#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.it/books?id=QtWvMclbR9YC&pg=PA504H7CQ#v...