Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. — Ron White Copy Share Image
As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. — Jon Stewart 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
To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
“Killing yourself isn’t against the law. If you succeed, there’s nothing they can do to punish you for it. And if you… — Hendrik Groen Copy Share Image
Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been… — Ramsey Clark 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
I say this idea of chokin' folks to death to reform 'em, is where we show the savage in us, which we… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,… — Helen Prejean 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
Yes, (Bush is a) racist. We all knew that but the world is only finding it out now. As Texas's governor, Bush… — Danny Glover 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
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
“The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed,… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for… — Peter Moskos 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
“Nearly all of these successful folks have made it in the business world by sticking with the free market ideal of survival… — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“Now, on the subject of deterrence, I admit that there can be little doubt that as presently administered in the United States,… — John Douglas Copy Share Image
Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to that effect, which was then given effect in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so in the… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
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