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
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
I stand with crime victims, members of the law enforcement community, and advocates for justice in opposing a repeal of the death… — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple… — Pete Buttigieg 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 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
The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness… — Tani Cantil-Sakauye 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
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
“Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
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