“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
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject… — Andrei Sakharov Copy Share Image
But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal… — John Van de Kamp 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
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 believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper… — Arthur Schopenhauer 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
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“I can believe that things are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
New Hampshire has always shown prudence and responsibility in its application of the death penalty. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
“Whatever the "Christian conservatives" in America say, there is no one set of rightful opinions that follow on automatically from your belief.… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“[T]he death penalty dehumanizes everyone on both sides of the equation. It dimishes everyone it touches. It is something we just shouldn't… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had. — John Waters Copy Share Image
