It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people. — L. Brent Bozell, Jr Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death, — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty. — Federica Mogherini Copy Share Image
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Also they have rattlesnakes, and the death penalty, which I think is primitive and unethical” — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature… — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged… — Greg Zoeller Copy Share Image
When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have more families at risk with the death penalty. It targets the voiceless, the poor, people of color. And so it's… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved… — Antoinette Bosco Copy Share Image
In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system.… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people… — John Morrison Copy Share Image
I've seen lots of murders, no murder is ever nice, and I just don't think the victim's family has an opportunity to… — John Cabello Copy Share Image
The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Germans argue with the Americans about many things, from the death penalty to the relationship between security and freedom. We have to… — Heinrich August Winkler Copy Share Image
When I was running for governor, I was attacked pretty strongly because of my position on the death penalty. But I looked… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
Who wouldn't want to vote for a guy who was a peaceful, radical, non-violent revolutionary; who hung around with lepers, hookers, and… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
“He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again. — Bill McCollum Copy Share Image
The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety. — Tom Price Copy Share Image
If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In ten Muslim countries you can get the death penalty just for being gay. If they were chopping the heads off of… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza 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
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
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