Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

If the death penalty is to be abolished, let those gentlemen, the murderers, do it first – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

French:

Si l’on veut abolir la peine de mort en ce cas, que MM. les assassins commencent

Source:
Shapiro, F. R. (2006). The Yale book of quotations. (F. R. Shapiro, Ed.) Yale University Press.