Camus Essay on Capital Punishment Resurfaces on Hacker News

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Albert Camus's essay 'Reflections on the Guillotine,' a classic critique of capital punishment, was shared on Hacker News. The essay is hosted on The Anarchist Library, a digital archive of anarchist and libertarian texts. Camus, the Nobel Prize-winning French author and philosopher, wrote the piece as a moral argument against the death penalty. The submission received 6 points on Hacker News but attracted no comments at the time of posting.

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