“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. — Nancy Reagan 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
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“Zwingli's introduction of capital punishment for those who differed from him on points of doctrine..." p179” — E.H. Broadbent- The Pilgrim Church Copy Share Image
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher 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
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act,… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices.… — Don Feder 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
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
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 don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness… — Tani Cantil-Sakauye 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
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
I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty… — William J. Brennan 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
Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of… — Werner Herzog 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
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
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
“For if freethinkers did not have a political platform, they nevertheless agreed on a wide range of social, cultural, and artistic concerns,… — Susan Jacoby 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
“A second example of this abandonment of fundamental principles can be found in recent trends in the U.S. Supreme Court. Note what… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“No soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles, kings, regents, prefects, or judges, no prisons, no lawsuits - and everything takes its… — Frederick Engels 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
“When the contentious questions are mainly economic (put aside such inflammatory but mainly noneconomic matters as capital punishment or abortion) they tend… — Robert Higgs 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
“I once visited a place where they killed people by putting them in a chair. Not torture — that was common enough;… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
