Access Quote by George W. Bush

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they…

— Thomas Sowell

Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent people are…

— Moses Harrison

I was certainly naïve about the judicial system in America. There's a lot of people who are in prison who are innocent. The system…

— Sam Rockwell

I'm speaking for everyone who has ever been incarcerated, especially those who are innocent or have been overly charged.

— Isaac Wright Jr

At least 80 percent of American prisoners are grossly over-sentenced. The Supreme Court knows this, but shows scant concern for this human side of…

— Conrad Black

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

— Anthony Ray Hinton

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but…

— Jan Schakowsky

I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90…

— Scott Turow

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants…

— John Grisham

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

— Paul Simon

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who…

— Antoinette Bosco

But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would…

— John Paul Stevens