States without the death penalty have had consistently lower murder rates. And national murder rates have declined steadily since 1992, despite fewer executions. — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves… — George Ryan Copy Share Image
We must work to build a criminal-legal system that is deeply rooted in a love for humanity, which begins with ending the… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to… — Troy King Copy Share Image
While I am a pro-life woman, I am also a woman who is concerned about rights for the disabled, maternity leave, the… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree…I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions… — Albert Pierrepoint Copy Share Image
While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
“We may be indifferent to the death penalty and not declare ourselves either way so long as we have not seen a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teresa Lewis, the only woman on death row in Virginia, says she doesn't deserve the death penalty because she only hired the… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the… — Avery Dulles Copy Share Image
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your… — Andrew Weil 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
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I… — Mamie Till Copy Share Image
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death… — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does… — Joseph Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
I happen to be catholic, and I heard that the pope was asking that we abolish the death penalty and I would… — John Cabello Copy Share Image
I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or… — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
It's impossible to separate our contemporary practice of the death penalty from our history around race and slavery, and specifically, lynching. Where… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
As a mother trying to raise kids with some kind of a code, an honorable way to solve problems without using violence,… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
