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
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. — Nancy Reagan Copy Share Image
I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in… — Hyecho Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Family and friends don't deserve to lose a family member because someone killed them for no reason. If the person is caught.… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
I found that the death penalty - and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person … — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not… — Ramsey Clark Copy Share Image
The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they… — Thomas Aquinas 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
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 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
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
Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people,… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is… — Ujjwal Nikam Copy Share Image
It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas… — Kerry Max Cook Copy Share Image
In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death… — Troy King Copy Share Image
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
“There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die… — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we… — Doug Davidson Copy Share Image
The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we… — Ron White Copy Share Image
