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I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied. — Oliver North
My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people… — Ed Crane
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the state punishes with… — William J. Brennan
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow
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
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
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. — Orrin Hatch
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
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
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue… — Gary Becker
I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be a nullity as… — Thomas Jefferson
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before… — Saint Augustine
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
It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better...let this punishment be… — Thomas Burnet
When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore… — Lewis Carroll
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are… — William Blackstone
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Einstein
How anyone can believe in eternal punishment, or in any soul which God has made being "lost" and also believes in the love, nay, even… — Unknown Author
I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward… — Heinrich Heine
The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with… — Robert Green Ingersoll
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second… — John Quincy Adams
To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run… — Zhuangzi
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could… — Patrick Henry

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