Caine’s Law and Punishment

It is very hard, my children, to prescribe for you the punishment of burning, of exsanguination, of beheading, of torture, of paralysis, of the sun death.

You are my Childer: alone among the rest of existence, you are my only companions, forever will we be locked in the way that fathers are bonded to their sons and sons to their fathers.

And yet,
I will root out the bad seed,
I will weed out the worst of you,
I will prune my dark tree,

in the manner that my Father, Adam, taught me.

— Caine, The Murderer