The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. — Bianca Jagger 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
The possibility of sending an innocent person to their death is a reason why I'm against the death penalty. — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period. — Troy King Copy Share Image
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied. — Oliver North Copy Share Image
The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's… — Clive Stafford Smith Copy Share Image
I would say that there are a lot of people who currently disagree with the death penalty, I just hope that it's… — John Cabello Copy Share Image
Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself… — John Fugelsang 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
The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to… — Gene Weingarten Copy Share Image
Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
“Executing Ted Bundy cost the state of Florida seven or eight million dollars, money that could have been better invested in building… — Gary Lequipe Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength… — Sakae Menda Copy Share Image
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
I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others… — Gary DeMar Copy Share Image
“Plea Against the Death Penalty Look, examine, reflect. You hold capital punishment up as an example. Why? Because of what it teaches.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
“It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death penalty are… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“You're wrong, you know," Susan said. "She doesn't belong here. I'm against the death penalty. I don't think the state should be… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering. — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K. — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that. — Lennie James Copy Share Image
My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
“Touching me without permission. There should be a death penalty for that.” — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will Copy Share Image