Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer… — Henry David Thoreau 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
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny 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
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
“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 long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die,… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr 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
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“I’ve no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. — George Orwell 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
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
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
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,… — Benjamin Tucker 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
“Since time began man has been struggling with the problem of behavior. In early days, when almost every human attribute had its… — Lewis E. Lawes Copy Share Image
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
