Adequate Quote by Harry A. Blackmun

I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us…

— Mike Farrell

I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes…

— Albert Pierrepoint

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

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

In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished…

— George Ryan

“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 punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

— Jean de la Bruyere

By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted…

— John Paul Stevens

To execute a man we don't need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it's necessary to execute him. It's that simple.

— Che Guevara

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

— Edward Abbey

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

— Bill McCollum

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

— Paul Simon