It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people. — L. Brent Bozell, Jr Copy Share Image
Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same. — Philemon Copy Share Image
I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty. — Federica Mogherini Copy Share Image
“Also they have rattlesnakes, and the death penalty, which I think is primitive and unethical” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death, — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“We cut down trees that do not bear fruit! We have to bring back the death penalty! It’s the only way to… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
“We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal… — V. R. Krishna Iyer Copy Share Image
The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Teresa Lewis, the only woman on death row in Virginia, says she doesn't deserve the death penalty because she only hired the… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“So something that never should have happened did, all because of my thoughts and actions. A clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship. I was the… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“once I admitted the arguments of necessity and force majeure put forward by the less eminent, I couldn’t reject those of the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is not impossible, however, to deliberately stave off the dangers of groupthink. Irving Janis proposed a list of ways to do… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“The thing that weighed on him most, however, was the irrationality of the world in which he now found himself. To some… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“I," she told him, "can believe anything. You have no idea what I can believe." "Really?" "I can believe things that are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“It had been a fix-up, a blind date set up by a well-meaning skinny coworker who had no clue that most men… — Sue Ann Jaffarian Copy Share Image
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