Capital punishment Quote by Albert Camus

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

— Albert Pierrepoint

It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of…

— Elizabeth Fry

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

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day…

— Marquis de Sade

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

— Lionel Jospin

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

— John Spenkelink

Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that…

— Patricia Cornwell

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

— Daniel Webster

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective…

— Catherine the Great