In “Discipline and Punish” he writes:

It was as if the pun­ish­ment was thought to equal, if not exceed, in sav­agery the crime itself, to accus­tom the spec­ta­tors to a feroc­ity from which one wished to divert them, to show them the fre­quency of crime, to make the exe­cu­tioner resem­ble a crim­i­nal, judges mur­der­ers, to reverse roles at the last moment, to make the tor­tured crim­i­nal an object of pity or admiration.

Just found that inter­est­ing in light of all of these dis­cus­sion con­cern­ing the clos­ing of Guantanamo Bay and the United States’ role in extra­di­tion and torture.