The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners. — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The death penalty has succeeded in America, not in spite of Christians, but because of us. The Bible Belt is the Death… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply… — Harry A. Blackmun 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
How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop… — Jesse Ventura 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
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them… — Tim McDonald Copy Share Image
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
“We cut down trees that do not bear fruit! We have to bring back the death penalty! It’s the only way to… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic… — Jimmy Carter 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
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
As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence,… — Susan Sarandon 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
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the… — Nick Cave 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
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