Agree Quote by Albert Pierrepoint

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

— Mario Puzo

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

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon…

— Thurgood Marshall

If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute…

— John C. McAdams

“Now, on the subject of deterrence, I admit that there can be little doubt that as presently administered in the United States, the death…

— John Douglas

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 there are…

— Tony Goldwyn

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

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

— Auberon Waugh

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

— Troy King

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

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send…

— Ujjwal Nikam

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

— Edward Abbey