Attorney Quote by Bob Butterworth

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

— Michael Moriarty

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

— Philemon

As attorney general, I don't get to pick and choose the laws I like and don't like.

— Luther Strange

Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on…

— Gerald Heaney

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

— Remy de Gourmont

The possibility of sending an innocent person to their death is a reason why I'm against the death penalty.

— Susanna Reid

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

— Clint Smith

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

— Kelly Ayotte

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who…

— Antoinette Bosco

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were stronger than…

— John Paul Stevens