Death penalty Quotes · Page 5

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.

— George W. Bush

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

— Nancy Reagan

The possibility of sending an innocent person to their death is a reason why I'm against the death penalty.

— Susanna Reid

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

— John Waters

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

— Bill Frist

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

— George Gascon

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.

— Hilary Swank

My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for…

— Scott Harshbarger

I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And…

— Janet Reno

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than…

— Janet Reno

no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate…

— Antoinette Bosco

“Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and…

— Michelle Alexander

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at…

— Jane Birkin

I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.

— Bill Maher

If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the…

— Avery Dulles

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If…

— Rick Perry

We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them…

— Tim McDonald

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of…

— Noam Chomsky

I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I…

— Merle Haggard

If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail…

— John C. McAdams

They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are…

— Thomas Aquinas

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world,…

— Nhat Hanh

“I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn't done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to…

— Neil Gaiman

“I can believe that things are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody…

— Neil Gaiman

“The rest of the question-and-answer period was pretty standard stuff, with a few hardballs thrown in just to keep things interesting. Where…

— Mira Grant

“He had a choice,’ I said. ‘He could have spent his days helping old ladies across the street. He could have volunteered…

— Lee Child

“To do just that, Bill Landes (University of Chicago Law School) and I collected data on all multiple victim public shootings in…

— John R. Lott Jr

I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for…

— Peter Moskos

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,…

— Harry A. Blackmun

“The mistake we all make is in assuming anybody remembers any damnthing from one day to the next. If that were true,…

— Harlan Ellison

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

— Nick Yarris

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James

I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.

— Amarinder Singh

“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”

— Nancy Reagan

Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

— Hafez Ibrahim

“Touching me without permission. There should be a death penalty for that.”

— Courtney Summers

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

— Reid Hoffman

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

— Cori Bush