I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening. — Richard Cohen 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
“In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget… — Dennis Prager 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
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an… — Albert Einstein 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
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
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
The last issue I remember where a president was involved was in the capital punishment of 1993 blasts convict Yaqub Memon. Otherwise,… — Raj Thackeray 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
The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations,… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
“For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not die he does not die a death of shame… — Oscar Wilde 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
Capital punishment, that thing scares me, it really does. I was talking to my friend about the electric chair, and he starts… — Dave Attell Copy Share Image
I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I… — Merle Haggard 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
“Always something in the nature of a Boil upon the face of society, Mr. Honeythunder expanded into an inflammatory Wen in Minor… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. — Woody Allen 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
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,'… — Jeff Lindsay 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
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
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment. — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.” — Joel Norris Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will Copy Share Image
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment." Student: "Prone.” — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
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