The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job. — George Orwell 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
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“Capital Punishment is simply the disposal of a defective product. Nothing more and nothing less.” — Robert M. Roberts Copy Share Image
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment. — Anjem Choudary 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
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
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
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in… — Hyecho Copy Share Image
Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that… — Tony Goldwyn 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
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
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“So what exactly did Jesus say about gays? Well, nothing actually, but he did say something about loving the least of god’s… — Noah Lugeons 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
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he… — Ernst Junger 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
“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
“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
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
It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead… — R.J. Rushdoony 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
“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 next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to… — Dan Barker 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
“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
“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
“Plea Against the Death Penalty Look, examine, reflect. You hold capital punishment up as an example. Why? Because of what it teaches.… — Victor Hugo 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
