Acknowledge Quote by Anthony Kennedy

When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot…

— Anthony Kennedy

California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors…

— Gil Garcetti

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous…

— Scott Harshbarger

No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft on crime.'…

— Mike Farrell

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

— Andrei Sakharov

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are…

— John Grisham

no study has brought out any solid evidence that the death penalty deters crime. In fact, Amnesty reports that 'the murder rate in states…

— Antoinette Bosco

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty,…

— Cori Bush

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what…

— Jonathan Shapiro

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

— Kinky Friedman

As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder…

— Howard Dean