Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the…

— Kofi Annan

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its…

— Helen Prejean

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

— Jack Kemp

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for…

— Andrew Cuomo

When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've…

— Shane Claiborne

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

— Alan Parker

With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not…

— Elie Wiesel

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum…

— Bernie Sanders

We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk about it.…

— Gabino Zavala

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race,…

— Bryan Stevenson

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death,

— Harry A. Blackmun

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially…

— Ralph Nader

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils,…

— Angela Davis