I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still…

no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states…

— Antoinette Bosco

“how that is the corpse's powerful capability That rupture The deaths of those disappeared and murdered by the State / and the bodies of…

— Carrie Lorig

“For example, it is without much debate now that Cameron Todd Willingham, who was convicted of setting fire to his own house while his…

— Brian W. Stolarz

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous…

— Scott Harshbarger

No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft on crime.'…

— Mike Farrell

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

— Andrei Sakharov

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are…

— John Grisham

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty,…

— Cori Bush

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what…

— Jonathan Shapiro

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

— Kinky Friedman

As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder…

— Howard Dean

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

— Rick Santorum

The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.

— Ralph Northam

Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal blow on…

— V. R. Krishna Iyer