If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal… — V. R. Krishna Iyer Copy Share Image
When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.We need to execute people… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws,… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part… — Gerald Heaney Copy Share Image
“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
“..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things.… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads.… — Ernest Gowers Copy Share Image
