Capital punishment Quote by Albert Pierrepoint Download Open image “Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.” — Albert Pierrepoint ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capital punishment Crime Punishment Revenge Views
Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Revenge is more wild, less calculated...deeply personal. Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved. (Mitch Rapp) — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
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,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings — Ambrose Bierce 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 sort whose… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not… — Albert Pierrepoint Copy Share Image
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried… — Albert Pierrepoint Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes… — Albert Pierrepoint Copy Share Image
“The next time believers tell you that 'separation of church and state' does not appear in our founding document, tell them to stop using… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
But now inquiry is being made concerning these issues. First, can any believer enlist in the military? Second, can any soldier, even those of… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
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