Also Quote by Benjamin Tucker

My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent…

— Ed Crane

“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be…

— Albert Camus

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

— Benjamin Tucker

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

— Orrin Hatch

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send…

— Ujjwal Nikam

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

— Auberon Waugh

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 now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent effect on…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency,…

— Albert Camus

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the…

— Jeff Lindsay