But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal… — John Van de Kamp Copy Share Image
“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors--psychology, sociology, women's studies--to prove that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any assassination is an assassination. It's cold, it's terrible. I'm against any capital punishment. Only the Lord has the right to take… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“Among some tossed-out books of my daughter's which I rescued...was one too awful to live. I returned it to the trash, resisting… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
“Capital Punishment is simply the disposal of a defective product. Nothing more and nothing less.” — Robert M. Roberts Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing… — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Muslims who convert to Christianity are not protected. That carries capital punishment. He would be given the opportunity to repent, and the… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
“If this is what the future’s like, I can’t say I’m keen on it. These metal locomotives with cannons on top must… — Mark Speed Copy Share Image
I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do,… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
