Crime Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

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

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

— George Bernard Shaw

Murder is not the crime of criminals, but that of law-abiding citizens.

— Emmanuel Teney

The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone…

— Jesse Ventura

The killing of a criminal can be moral-but never its legitimation.

— Walter Benjamin

“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

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

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

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public…

— Saint Augustine

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

— Auberon Waugh