Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
While I am a pro-life woman, I am also a woman who is concerned about rights for the disabled, maternity leave, the… — Abby Johnson 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
It's not about whether you are innocent or guilty. It's about whether or not you can prove you're innocent. If you can't… — Ronald Jones Copy Share Image
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact. — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake. — Jim Petro Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the most heinous crimes warrant the death penalty. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?… — Albert Camus 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
Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which… — Richard Viguerie 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
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We don't cut off the hands of thieves or castrate rapists. Why must we murder murderers? — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I do not think we should reward murderers by keeping them alive in air conditioned prisons where they are fed everyday. If… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people. — Cori Bush 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
“once I admitted the arguments of necessity and force majeure put forward by the less eminent, I couldn’t reject those of the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
