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
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also… — Burke Marshall Copy Share Image
States without the death penalty have had consistently lower murder rates. And national murder rates have declined steadily since 1992, despite fewer executions. — S.E. Cupp 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
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice,… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
“We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we… — Victor Hugo 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
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna… — Robin Stevenson 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
If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant… — George H. W. Bush 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
I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to… — George W. Bush 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
For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for… — Scott Harshbarger Copy Share Image
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we’d not only have fewer parking tickets, we’d also have much less… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers… — Gil Garcetti Copy Share Image
I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take… — Tim McDonald Copy Share Image
I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment… We cannot ignore the fact that… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“The death penalty costs too much. Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
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