Capital punishment Quote by George Bernard Shaw

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

— Jack Kemp

I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are…

— Merle Haggard

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

— Banksy

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

— Orrin Hatch

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send…

— Ujjwal Nikam

I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent…

— John Paul Stevens

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.

— Alphonse Karr

I wanted to say I don't agree with capital punishment.

— Guy Sebastian

Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the…

— Ramsey Clark

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the…

— Jeff Lindsay

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