Death penalty Quotes · Page 7

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

— Nick Yarris

My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Touching me without permission. There should be a death penalty for that.”

— Courtney Summers

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

— George Will

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

— Reid Hoffman

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

— Cori Bush

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

— Anthony Kennedy

Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.

— Tom Price

Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has…

— Richard Viguerie

Prosecutors must reveal the dirty little secret they too often share only among themselves: The death penalty actually hinders the fight against…

— Robert M. Morgenthau

My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt…

— Ed Crane

The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people.

— Cori Bush

As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in…

— John R. Dunne

“Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to reintroduce the electric chair without…

— Anonymous

The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in…

— Hyecho

When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption…

— Blase J. Cupich

Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is…

— Clarence Darrow

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

The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways…

— Shane Claiborne

When you look at the Bible, and I read the Bible very seriously, for a lot of my life, I believed the…

— Shane Claiborne

What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others?…

— Erica Jong

Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone…

— Robert Falcon Scott

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject…

— Andrei Sakharov

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute…

— Anonymous

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

— Cesar Chavez

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

— Jesse Ventura

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

— Brigitte Bardot

In the US Bible Belt, you can be pro-death penalty, pro-gun, pro-war, pro-drone and still proclaim that you're Pro-life.

— Anonymous

“He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.”

— John Grisham

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

— Bill McCollum

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

— Kinky Friedman

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

— Anthony Jeselnik

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

— L. Brent Bozell, Jr

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death,

— Harry A. Blackmun

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

— Mark Twain

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.

— Federica Mogherini

For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Also they have rattlesnakes, and the death penalty, which I think is primitive and unethical”

— Donna Tartt

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

— Woody Allen

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

— John Spenkelink