People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior? — James B. Donovan Copy Share Image
For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed... — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty. — Joycelyn Elders Copy Share Image
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself… — John Fugelsang Copy Share Image
Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
The death penalty? Give me a break. It's easy. Abortion? Absolutely easy. Nobody ever thought the constitution prevented restrictions on abortion. Homosexual… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
For one, as I've written before, the death penalty is plainly unjust. When the number of wrongful convictions and death penalty cases… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
“They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses… — Stephen King 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 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
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
The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but… — Gaspar Noe 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
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
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that… — Jay Sekulow Copy Share Image
“Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to read in the land of Dante and of Michael… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is not impossible, however, to deliberately stave off the dangers of groupthink. Irving Janis proposed a list of ways to do… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
“The thing that weighed on him most, however, was the irrationality of the world in which he now found himself. To some… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“once I admitted the arguments of necessity and force majeure put forward by the less eminent, I couldn’t reject those of the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You're wrong, you know," Susan said. "She doesn't belong here. I'm against the death penalty. I don't think the state should be… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
“It was about that time [415 BCE] that the poet Diagoras of Melos was proscribed for atheism, he having declared that the… — J. M. Robertson Copy Share Image
“It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death penalty are… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective. — Evelyn Lundberg Stratton Copy Share Image
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Ima kill the game and invite witnesses No death penalty, Im givin out life sentences. — J Cole Copy Share Image
In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
New Hampshire has always shown prudence and responsibility in its application of the death penalty. — Chris Sununu Copy Share Image
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