... he cried unsteadily, "and a priest should be no shedder of blood. I—I mean that he should bring no one to the gallows. And I thank God that I see the criminal clearly now—because he is a criminal who cannot be brought ... — The Innocence of Father Brown • G. K. Chesterton
... that He loveth mercy, And the famine is not yet gone; That He hateth the shedder of blood And He slayeth us ... — A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo