Against death penalty Quote by Albert Camus Download Open image “Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.” — Albert Camus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Against death penalty Capital punishment Crime Death penalty Murder Penalties Punishment
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him… — Albert Camus Copy Share
“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from… — Albert Camus Copy Share
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
“The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.” — Joel Norris Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent effect on… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk about it.… — Gabino Zavala Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
