Culture Quote by Benjamin Wittes

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the…

— Jesse Ventura

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

— Danny Glover

“Now, on the subject of deterrence, I admit that there can be little doubt that as presently administered in the United States, the death…

— John Douglas

I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes…

— Albert Pierrepoint

I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us…

— Mike Farrell

It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote…

— Rudy Giuliani

The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

— N. Robert Hammer

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy,…

— Gary Johnson

“I have no doubt that we will one day abolish the death penalty in America. It will come sooner if people like me who…

— Helen Prejean

It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree…I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried…

— Albert Pierrepoint

The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the…

— Gaspar Noe

You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes,…

— Jodi Picoult