Death Quote by Assata Shakur

The death penalty has been one of many examples where racial discrimination has played out. You can see it in the simple fact that…

— Pete Buttigieg

The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people.

— Cori Bush

It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes…

— John Morrison

“Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory…

— Michelle Alexander

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral…

— Bryan Stevenson

I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there…

— Ujjwal Nikam

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due…

— Burke Marshall

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

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

When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not…

— Helen Prejean

I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If…

— Harry A. Blackmun

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James