Death penalty Quotes · Page 9

I'm a kill the game and invite witnesses, No death penalty, I'm givin' out life sentences.

— J Cole

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.

— Hilary Swank

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

— Nick Yarris

My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James

I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.

— Amarinder Singh

“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”

— Nancy Reagan

The possibility of sending an innocent person to their death is a reason why I'm against the death penalty.

— Susanna Reid

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the…

— Antonin Scalia

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment…

— Paul Jacob

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we…

— Troy King

For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing…

— James Frey

The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an…

— Anonymous

The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death…

— Joseph Farah

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.

— Raymond Pettibon

It is written: "Wizards thou shalt not suffer to live" (Ex. 22:18); and: "In the morning I put to death all the…

— Thomas Aquinas

“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be,…

— Albert Camus

“In tourism college they were taught that American notions of what constitutes a personal question are quite different from their own. Tư…

— Camilla Gibb

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when…

— Harry A. Blackmun

The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each…

— Faxian

When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.We need to execute people…

— Ann Coulter

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe…

— Dalai Lama

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the…

— Auberon Waugh

I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I…

— Ronald Reagan

“I've come out many times publicly in support of the death penalty. I've stated that I'd be more than willing personally to…

— John E. Douglas

“I," she told him, "can believe anything. You have no idea what I can believe." "Really?" "I can believe things that are…

— Neil Gaiman

“Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off…

— Cornell Woolrich

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What…

— Victor Hugo

There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself.…

— Wendell Phillips

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

— John Waters

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

— Bill Frist

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

— George Gascon

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

— Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

— Bobby Scott

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.

— George W. Bush

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

— Nancy Reagan

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

— Troy King

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

— Eric Holder

I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.

— Shane Claiborne

I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

— Oliver North