Best Capital Punishment Quotes
84 Capital Punishment quotes by 68 unique authors
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When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the promise that capital…
— Thurgood Marshall
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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, the…
— Albert Camus
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I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about it, because they…
— Stephen Colbert
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I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
— Richard Attenborough
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The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.
— Edward Abbey
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A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the aim is to…
— Unknown Author
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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot
— Banksy
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One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.…
— William J. Brennan
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I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
— Lionel Jospin
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As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too…
— Jodi Picoult
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[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition…
— Bryan Stevenson
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Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
— William J. Clinton
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The Constitution should contain a provision that every officer of the Government who should neglect or refuse to extend the protection guaranteed in the Constitution…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal crisis in recent…
— John Van de Kamp
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The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to…
— Ernst Junger
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Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison…
— Peter Kropotkin
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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.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
— Brendan Behan
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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
— Jesse Jackson
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Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?
— Woody Allen
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The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
— Geoffrey Fisher
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I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
— Werner Herzog
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I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery…
— Aldrich Ames
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