Capital punishment Quote by Charlize Theron

Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate…

— Don Feder

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are…

— Tony Goldwyn

Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice…

— Antoinette Bosco

My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent…

— Ed Crane

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon…

— Thurgood Marshall

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

— Michael Finkel

“Now, on the subject of deterrence, I admit that there can be little doubt that as presently administered in the United States, the death…

— John Douglas

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…

— Jodi Picoult

For one, as I've written before, the death penalty is plainly unjust. When the number of wrongful convictions and death penalty cases that are…

— S.E. Cupp

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

— Benjamin Tucker

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,…

— Albert Camus

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

— Albert Camus