“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Zwingli's introduction of capital punishment for those who differed from him on points of doctrine..." p179” — E.H. Broadbent- The Pilgrim Church Copy Share Image
Smile is a therapy. It is better than you go to a saloon. Anger is the worst pain than capital punishment. — @th Copy Share Image
“...judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment. — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The last issue I remember where a president was involved was in the capital punishment of 1993 blasts convict Yaqub Memon. Otherwise,… — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the… — Sidney Hatch Copy Share Image
If the Khalifah implements even one law outside of the divine law, then he will be removed. The courts will face him… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that in cases of child rape the question of consent cannot arise at all, simply because a child… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Today capital punishment is widely seen as a human rights violation. In 2007 the UN General Assembly voted 105–54 (with 29 abstentions)… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Among some tossed-out books of my daughter's which I rescued...was one too awful to live. I returned it to the trash, resisting… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
“So what exactly did Jesus say about gays? Well, nothing actually, but he did say something about loving the least of god’s… — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
“The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcraft trials in Salem… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“A week ago," Ishmael said, "when we were talking about laws, you said that there's only one kind of law about how… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“If this is what the future’s like, I can’t say I’m keen on it. These metal locomotives with cannons on top must… — Mark Speed Copy Share Image
“The world has far too much morality, at least in the sense of activity of people's moral instincts. If you look, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things.… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“No matter how limited their powers of reason might have been. still they must have understood that living like that was just… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image