It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty. — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again. — Bill McCollum Copy Share Image
“He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“Why do we want to kill all the broken people? What is wrong with us, that we think a thing like that… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In the US Bible Belt, you can be pro-death penalty, pro-gun, pro-war, pro-drone and still proclaim that you're Pro-life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft… — Mike Farrell Copy Share Image
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
“[T]he death penalty dehumanizes everyone on both sides of the equation. It dimishes everyone it touches. It is something we just shouldn't… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we… — Joseph Lowery Copy Share Image
The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which… — Richard Viguerie 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
I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded… — Ujjwal Nikam Copy Share Image
In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in… — George Ryan Copy Share Image
The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel of life… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
Within our own society, we jail more prisoners than any other country in the world, 85 percent of them people of nonwhite… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I do not think we should reward murderers by keeping them alive in air conditioned prisons where they are fed everyday. If… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“The early and relatively sophisticated Egyptians understood that their civilization would be threatened if they bred with the Negroes to their south,… — Kyle Bristow Copy Share Image
Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa to that effect, which was then given effect in the Islamic Republic of Iran, so in the… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
“Trial began on Friday, July 23, 1875... the jury which was finally selected consisted of eight Mormons, three Gentiles, and one Jack… — Juanita Brooks Copy Share Image
“It had been a fix-up, a blind date set up by a well-meaning skinny coworker who had no clue that most men… — Sue Ann Jaffarian Copy Share Image
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Touching me without permission. There should be a death penalty for that.” — Courtney Summers Copy Share Image
Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights. — Hafez Ibrahim Copy Share Image
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order. — George Will Copy Share Image
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