Cases Quote by George W. Bush

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in…

— William J. Brennan

I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for most of…

— Peter Moskos

There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death and creates…

— Robert Cecil Martin

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially…

— Ralph Nader

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

— Andrei Sakharov

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due…

— Burke Marshall

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

— Alan Parker

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

— Danny Glover

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 have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made…

— Michael Baden

[T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think…

— Richard Brown