Capital punishment Quote by Don Feder

“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

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

The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The…

— William J. Brennan

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately…

— Potter Stewart

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook…

— Dennis Prager

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

I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent effect on…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute…

— John C. McAdams

I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

— Albert Camus

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between…

— Immanuel Kant