Death penalty Quotes · Page 2

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

— Patricia Cornwell

“The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country.”

— Koestler Arthur

The death sentence is a barbaric act.

— Nelson Mandela

I believe in the death penalty.

— James Dobson

Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out.

— Jesse Bishop

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

— Coretta Scott King

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

— Kate Brown

I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison,

— Pamela Smart

“Christianity Life sentence with a death penalty and full pardon”

— John M. Sheehan

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

— Theodore Kaczynski

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

— Tony Randall

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

— Rob McKenna

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

— Edward Abbey

If I was a judge I'd give strangers the death penalty for eating with their mouths open.

— Nikhil Saluja

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

— Ed Koch

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.

— Kinky Friedman

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

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

When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the…

— Anthony Kennedy

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

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature…

— Janet Reno

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say…

— Desmond Tutu

When you sit around at dinner talking about the death penalty, it's hard to find relevance in what color shoes will be…

— Kenneth Cole

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

As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as…

— Howard Dean

I'm glad things are getting better, but I'm going to push and be pissed off until they're perfect. That will probably never…

— Perfume Genius

How dangerous it is rashly to adopt the Mosaical institutions [Old Testament teachings of eye for an eye]. Laws might have been…

— Gerald Heaney

I don't believe in a lot of things from the Bronze Age, but an eye for an eye does make a sort…

— Bill Maher

This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases…

— Faxian

A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since…

— Warren Farrell

I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge…

— Albert Pierrepoint

While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The fact that it has nothing else to contribute to human wisdom is no reason to hand religion a free licence to…

— Richard Dawkins

I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA…

— Al Gore

“In the wake of prevalent child rape and child abuse cases reported and unreported; Infliction of “Death Penalty” for child rape irrespective…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

“The mistake we all make is in assuming anybody remembers any damnthing from one day to the next. If that were true,…

— Harlan Ellison

“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“Three hundred years ago people in England were putting witches to death. Was that what you call the 'Rule of Human Nature…

— C.S. Lewis

“He had a choice,’ I said. ‘He could have spent his days helping old ladies across the street. He could have volunteered…

— Lee Child

“To do just that, Bill Landes (University of Chicago Law School) and I collected data on all multiple victim public shootings in…

— John R. Lott Jr