“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness. — Jerry Brown 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
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Zwingli's introduction of capital punishment for those who differed from him on points of doctrine..." p179” — E.H. Broadbent- The Pilgrim Church Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The last issue I remember where a president was involved was in the capital punishment of 1993 blasts convict Yaqub Memon. Otherwise,… — Raj Thackeray 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
If the Khalifah implements even one law outside of the divine law, then he will be removed. The courts will face him… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the… — Sidney Hatch Copy Share Image
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices.… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it… — Jodi Picoult 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
“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
“So what exactly did Jesus say about gays? Well, nothing actually, but he did say something about loving the least of god’s… — Noah Lugeons 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
Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die he does not die a death of shame… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A week ago," Ishmael said, "when we were talking about laws, you said that there's only one kind of law about how… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcraft trials in Salem… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“The world has far too much morality, at least in the sense of activity of people's moral instincts. If you look, and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things.… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“Always something in the nature of a Boil upon the face of society, Mr. Honeythunder expanded into an inflammatory Wen in Minor… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When the contentious questions are mainly economic (put aside such inflammatory but mainly noneconomic matters as capital punishment or abortion) they tend… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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