Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will Copy Share Image
I'm a kill the game and invite witnesses, No death penalty, I'm givin' out life sentences. — J Cole Copy Share Image
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it… — Robert M. Morgenthau Copy Share Image
A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to… — Byron White Copy Share Image
The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the… — George Ryan Copy Share Image
Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads.… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Three hundred years ago people in England were putting witches to death. Was that what you call the 'Rule of Human Nature… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“In the wake of prevalent child rape and child abuse cases reported and unreported; Infliction of “Death Penalty” for child rape irrespective… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“And confronting these men, wild and terrible as we agree that they were, there were men of quite another kind, smiling and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I wrote that certain things were leaving me nauseated. I said that judges made me feel that way. Not most of them… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake. — Jim Petro Copy Share Image
The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference. — Ray Krone Copy Share Image
Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated — George Gascon Copy Share Image
I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
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