I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. — George Ryan Copy Share Image
I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row. — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
An act of Congress could abolish the federal death penalty once and for all, and my sister in service, Representative Ayanna Pressley,… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded… — Ujjwal Nikam Copy Share Image
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million married couples will benefit from… — Tim Murphy Copy Share Image
But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal… — John Van de Kamp Copy Share Image
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,… — Helen Prejean 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
“Let me tell you something. When there is a penalty kick, most people think that the penalty taker is in control. But… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“We’re here to execute a murderer,” Zil said, pointing at Hunter. “We are bringing justice in the name of all normals.” “There’s… — Michael Grant 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
“With theology as a code of dogmas which are to be believed, or at any rate repeated, under penalty of present or… — Thomas Henry Huxley 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
When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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