I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross! — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it. — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also… — Burke Marshall Copy Share Image
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the… — Jay Smith Copy Share Image
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution…There comes a… — Jeanne Woodford Copy Share Image
When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
There are murder victims' family members who go through this process thinking they'll feel peace once the revenge of the death penalty… — Terri Steinberg Copy Share Image
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Today capital punishment is widely seen as a human rights violation. In 2007 the UN General Assembly voted 105–54 (with 29 abstentions)… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“I have no doubt that we will one day abolish the death penalty in America. It will come sooner if people like… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that in cases of child rape the question of consent cannot arise at all, simply because a child… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
“In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“So, once more, the question is: Does the Bible forbid homosexual behavior? Well, I’ve already said that it does. The Bible is… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hangs upon the cross! This is the greatest… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The Death Penalty: Killing people that kill people to show people that killing people is wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If you support the death penalty, you forfeit all right to refer to yourself as 'Pro-life.' — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. — Ron White Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
