“Solitude is the worst of punishments. It’s like waiting in the Death Row for your last supper and the final blow, the… — Magdalena Ganowska Copy Share Image
It's a tract against capital punishment in the genre of Swift's Modest Proposal. I was simply following a formula to its logical… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“In the wake of prevalent child rape and child abuse cases reported and unreported; Infliction of “Death Penalty” for child rape irrespective… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“No matter how limited their powers of reason might have been. still they must have understood that living like that was just… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for the non fulfillment of which those who do… — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“I would not tell this court that I do not hope that some time, when life and age have changed their bodies,… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid to die," he said. "We've all got to die. I've never had a headache, never had tuberculosis, or… — Lewis E. Lawes Copy Share Image
“Being a hangman requires you to take someone else’s life based on someone else’s judgment, and carry it out on someone else’s… — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko Copy Share Image
“It cannot be denied that in cases of child rape the question of consent cannot arise at all, simply because a child… — Henrietta Newton Martin Copy Share Image
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“...judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them. — Pete Buttigieg Copy Share Image
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Smile is a therapy. It is better than you go to a saloon. Anger is the worst pain than capital punishment. — @th Copy Share Image
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn? — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. — James Madison Copy Share Image
