Death Quote by Harry A. Blackmun

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

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored--indeed, I have…

— Harry A. Blackmun

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

— Martin O'Malley

The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.

— Ralph Northam

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

— George Ryan

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

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

— Nelson Mandela

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

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

— Clint Smith

Remember, the death penalty is murder.

— Robert Drew

It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and…

— Richard Cohen