Out, damned spot! out, I say (...) What need we
fear who knows it, when none can call our power
to account?—Yet who would have thought the old
man to have had so much blood in him? (...)
What, will these hands ne'er be clean (...)
Here's the smell of the blood still (...)
in MACBETH, Act 5; Scene 1.
(The Nuremberg Tribunal ruled that crimes against humanity are universally punished with death by hanging.)
