If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. — Bob Butterworth Copy Share Image
The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty. — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the most heinous crimes warrant the death penalty. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can… — Michael Baden 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
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice,… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
States without the death penalty have had consistently lower murder rates. And national murder rates have declined steadily since 1992, despite fewer executions. — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent… — Moses Harrison Copy Share Image
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
“Now, on the subject of deterrence, I admit that there can be little doubt that as presently administered in the United States,… — John Douglas Copy Share Image
“Killing one person was murder; killing a few or dozens was ore murder; so killing thousands or tens of thousands ought to… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Nearly all of these successful folks have made it in the business world by sticking with the free market ideal of survival… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
“Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families. — Rob McKenna Copy Share Image
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If I was a judge I'd give strangers the death penalty for eating with their mouths open. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact. — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it? — Tony Randall Copy Share Image
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed. — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
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