There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If I had admitted my guilt, it would have been the same as putting my head on the chopping block - lifetime… — Pete Rose Copy Share Image
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna… — Robin Stevenson Copy Share Image
It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
A reform in the system of criminal jurisprudence, by which the death penalty shall no longer be inflicted . . . and… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
There are murder victims' family members who go through this process thinking they'll feel peace once the revenge of the death penalty… — Terri Steinberg Copy Share Image
We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution…There comes a… — Jeanne Woodford Copy Share Image
When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent… — Moses Harrison Copy Share Image
The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal… — Ban Ki-moon 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
I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads.… — Ernest Gowers 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
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
This is the company we keep when it comes to the death penalty: China, the number one executing country; Iran, Iraq, Saudi… — Shane Claiborne 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 don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the… — Nick Cave 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
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world,… — Nhat Hanh 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
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them… — Tim McDonald Copy Share Image
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail… — John C. McAdams Copy Share Image
They also have at that critical point of death the opportunity to be converted to God through repentance. And if they are… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
