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Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration… — Ramsey Clark
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by… — Victor Hugo
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for… — Helen Prejean
Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them? — Helen Prejean
I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing. Now, that's… — John F. Kerry
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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 out… — Albert Pierrepoint
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would… — Primo Levi
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant… — Byron White
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of… — Unknown Author
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the… — Thurgood Marshall
The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel of life in every situation.… — Pope John Paul II
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers,… — Unknown Author
Sometimes you just have the thin the herd. — Dennis Miller
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. — Orrin Hatch
I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death]… — Harry A. Blackmun
I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we… — Harry A. Blackmun
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner… — Harry A. Blackmun
This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases of repeated attempts… — Faxian
The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in accordance with the… — Unknown Author
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment… — Dalai Lama
What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God. — Mother Teresa
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . — Desmond Tutu
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. — Nelson Mandela

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