I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
“Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will Copy Share Image
Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. — James Madison Copy Share Image
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.” — Joel Norris Copy Share Image
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to… — Aldrich Ames Copy Share Image
My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in… — Hyecho Copy Share Image
The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die he does not die a death of shame… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“The Damned Axe by Stewart Stafford The axe decapitates a head, Society's ills get quickly shed, Can we trust what we don't… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid to die," he said. "We've all got to die. I've never had a headache, never had tuberculosis, or… — Lewis E. Lawes Copy Share Image
“It must be this overarching commitment to what is really an abstraction, to one's children right or wrong, that can be even… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied. — Oliver North Copy Share Image
Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.” — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share Image
[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians. — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
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