I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers? — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
New Hampshire has always shown prudence and responsibility in its application of the death penalty. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. — George Ryan Copy Share Image
I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as… — Steve Largent 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
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
I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA]… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it… — Gil Garcetti Copy Share Image
The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel of life… — Pope John Paul II 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
In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in… — George Ryan Copy Share Image
“In tourism college they were taught that American notions of what constitutes a personal question are quite different from their own. Tư… — Camilla Gibb Copy Share Image
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the… — Coretta Scott King 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
“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
“I have no doubt that we will one day abolish the death penalty in America. It will come sooner if people like… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
“Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Walter made me understand why we have to reform a system of criminal justice that continues to treat people better if they… — Bryan Stevenson 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
“A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has killed… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Im from Texas. In Texas we have the death penalty and we USE IT! Thats right¦ if you come to Texas and… — Ron White Copy Share Image
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