Regret Quote by Anonymous

Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to…

— George Ryan

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

— Joel Norris

“The failure of decision makers to grapple with the inner workings of their own minds, and their desire to indulge their gut feelings, made…

— Michael Lewis

“The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…”

— Thomas Pynchon

“among guilt-ridden criminals, first diagnosed”

— Eoin Colfer

I am convinced that, because the criminal justice system is run by humans, it is naturally subject to human error. There is no rational…

— Tom Price

We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

“Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo.”

— Neal Shusterman

“There was a stricken conscience of public guilt and we all felt that we had been wrong, that something was wrong with that building…

— Frances Perkins

“A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has insufficient capital to form a corporation.”

— Howard Scott

They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault…

— Robert Southey

“Some of our best intentions fail because we don’t have a system of execution.”

— Darren Hardy