The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“Maybe capital punishment would have deterred the scumbag who shot and killed my father in a botched armed robbery. But instead, he… — Stephen Edger 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
If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty… — Caryl Chessman Copy Share Image
The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
“The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes for child sex and sexual abuse… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti),… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“I had a dream about you. You were being hung. I had a sword in one hand and a stool in the… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. — Benjamin Tucker 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
“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
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
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
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions… — Albert Pierrepoint 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
The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can't return even if it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to… — Aldrich Ames 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
