Best Penalty Quotes
386 Penalty quotes by 274 unique authors
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I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed…
— Desmond Tutu
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I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It…
— Gil Garcetti
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By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly…
— Joseph Lowery
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Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the…
— Gerald Heaney
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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 was…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has a soul, and…
— Richard Viguerie
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"Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin-…
— Billy Graham
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I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out…
— Ujjwal Nikam
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I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there are…
— Ujjwal Nikam
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There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is…
— Jimmy Carter
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The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where the…
— Ban Ki-moon
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I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice,…
— Albert Einstein
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As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for…
— Coretta Scott King
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With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe…
— Elie Wiesel
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some…
— William J. Brennan
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It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder.…
— John Morrison
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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
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The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity…
— Helen Prejean
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The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence…
— Desmond Tutu
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.
— Jimmy Carter
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The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.
— Unknown Author
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I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the…
— Mamie Till
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We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk about it. A…
— Unknown Author
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California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors in…
— Gil Garcetti
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