Capital punishment Quote by Benjamin Tucker

Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.

— Benjamin Tucker

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon…

— Thurgood Marshall

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

— Woody Allen

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

— Patricia Cornwell

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

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

— Troy King

The punishment itself is something I respectfully disagree with, but for thousands and thousands of years it was practiced everywhere.

— Werner Herzog

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day…

— Marquis de Sade

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are…

— Tony Goldwyn

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of…

— Benjamin Tucker

I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.

— Evelyn Lundberg Stratton

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