I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years? — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty. — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself. — Plato Copy Share Image
In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death… — Troy King Copy Share Image
It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people,… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is… — Ujjwal Nikam 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
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“He’d spent so much time in the penalty box for fighting last season, he’d been tempted to hang a picture and maybe… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
I think when I was younger, I knew I was either going to get a penalty or score a goal. It was… — Brad Marchand Copy Share Image
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers. — Alphonse Karr 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
Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Penalties are paradoxical things. If you give away a penalty and don't save it, it's your own terrible mistake, but at least… — David James Copy Share Image
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
When you step up and take a penalty, it's 50/50 - but you've got to back yourself. — Nikita Parris Copy Share Image
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them. — Alfred Sutro Copy Share Image
Any time you have a negative play in the running game, it's like getting a penalty. — Bill Belichick 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
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