Capital punishment Quote by Ambrose Bierce

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer…

— Ernst Junger

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

— John Spenkelink

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

— Saint Augustine

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

— Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

— William J. Clinton

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

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing

— Voltaire

“The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.”

— Joel Norris

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country,…

— Voltaire