"The first result of the Humanitarian theory is, therefore, to substitute for a definite sentence (reflecting to some extent the community’s moral judgment on the degree of ill-desert involved) an indefinite sentence terminable only by the word of those experts — and they are not experts in moral theology nor even in the Law of Nature — who infllict it. Which of us, if he stood in the dock, would not prefer to be tried by the old system?"
— C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment”
