Capital punishment Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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

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…

— Coretta Scott King

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

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

— Benjamin Tucker

How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than…

— Neal Shusterman

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

“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be…

— Albert Camus

Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or might be…

— Cass Sunstein

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of…

— Benjamin Tucker

The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on…

— W. H. Auden