“Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied. — Oliver North Copy Share Image
The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“To kill for murder is an immeasurably greater evil than the actual crime itself. Judicial murder is immeasurably more horrible than one… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“The Damned Axe by Stewart Stafford The axe decapitates a head, Society's ills get quickly shed, Can we trust what we don't… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I would say that there are a lot of people who currently disagree with the death penalty, I just hope that it's… — John Cabello Copy Share Image
Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness. — Jerry Brown 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
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“It must be this overarching commitment to what is really an abstraction, to one's children right or wrong, that can be even… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is… — Ujjwal Nikam 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
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is… — Bryan Stevenson 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
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
“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
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