Capital punishment Quote by Auberon Waugh

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one…

— Auberon Waugh

“...it is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still…

— John Stuart Mill

“Nonconsensual execution can never be humanely executed.”

— Mango Wodzak

“I have long held that judicial restraint, expressed through a well-reasoned rejection, is at times the most efficient form of justice; preserving both time…

— Henrietta Newton Martin-Legal Professional & Author

“Capital Punishment is simply the disposal of a defective product. Nothing more and nothing less.”

— Robert M. Roberts

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates…

— Anonymous

“Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.”

— Lord Chief Justice Hewart

“stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgement of the law is one of the most significant tributes…

— Ann Tusa

For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed...

— Kathleen Parker

“There is only one penalty for high treason: for a man, to be hanged, cut down alive and eviscerated, or for a woman, to…

— Hilary Mantel

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

— John Paul Stevens

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

— Anonymous