There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not… — Ramsey Clark 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
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
Teresa Lewis, the only woman on death row in Virginia, says she doesn't deserve the death penalty because she only hired the… — Dennis Miller 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
It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more… — Shane Claiborne 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
While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
“We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a… — Victor Hugo 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
“So something that never should have happened did, all because of my thoughts and actions. A clear-cut cause-and-effect relationship. I was the… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I happen to be catholic, and I heard that the pope was asking that we abolish the death penalty and I would… — John Cabello Copy Share Image
I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“From 1500, anyone in China found building a ship with more than two masts was liable to the death penalty; in 1551… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk… — Gabino Zavala Copy Share Image
“I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a bit different throughout the country, so I look… — Pam Bondi Copy Share Image
The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. ABORTION is treason against the family and deserves the… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Frankly, I don't think you should perform in a plaza where thousands of Cubans have been subjected to the death penalty, by… — Zoe Valdes Copy Share Image
Look how in societies today where Islam is dominant and prominent, how any non-Islamic person, whether it's a Christian or an apostate… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where… — John Grisham 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
According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
