Court Quote by Amal Clooney

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us…

— Mike Farrell

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

— Thomas Jefferson

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

— George Bernard Shaw

In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death…

— Ida B. Wells

“To kill for murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Justice is better when it prevents rather than punishes with severity

— Legal Maxim

Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on…

— Gerald Heaney

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

Justice is not easy. It does not fit the mold of public opinion.

— Daniel Cameron

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in…

— William J. Brennan