I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh? — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period. — Troy King 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
“do you believe in the death penalty?" he asked her. "you mean being sober?" she laughed.” — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to… — George W. Bush 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
There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the… — Angela Davis 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
I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
I happen to be catholic, and I heard that the pope was asking that we abolish the death penalty and I would… — John Cabello Copy Share Image
One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
“I've come out many times publicly in support of the death penalty. I've stated that I'd be more than willing personally to… — John E. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Trial began on Friday, July 23, 1875... the jury which was finally selected consisted of eight Mormons, three Gentiles, and one Jack… — Juanita Brooks Copy Share Image
Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to that effect, which was then given effect in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so in the… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
I do not think we should reward murderers by keeping them alive in air conditioned prisons where they are fed everyday. If… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
“The early and relatively sophisticated Egyptians understood that their civilization would be threatened if they bred with the Negroes to their south,… — Kyle Bristow Copy Share Image
Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
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