The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
In the US Bible Belt, you can be pro-death penalty, pro-gun, pro-war, pro-drone and still proclaim that you're Pro-life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's… — William J. Brennan 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
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
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can… — Michael Baden Copy Share Image
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an… — Anonymous 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 think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families. — Rob McKenna Copy Share Image
The Death Penalty: Killing people that kill people to show people that killing people is wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now… — Clarence Darrow 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
In ten Muslim countries you can get the death penalty just for being gay. If they were chopping the heads off of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?'… — Socrates Copy Share Image
If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in… — Jimmy Carter 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
Family and friends don't deserve to lose a family member because someone killed them for no reason. If the person is caught.… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
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