Accepting Quote by Helen Prejean

“I have no doubt that we will one day abolish the death penalty in America. It will come sooner if people like me who…

— Helen Prejean

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

— Theodore Kaczynski

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people…

— Janet Reno

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death…

— Gene Simmons

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death…

— Gene Simmons

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

“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

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

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people…

— George Bernard Shaw

The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the…

— Gaspar Noe

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'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

— Anthony Ray Hinton