Death Quote by Helen Prejean

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

— Helen Prejean

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are…

— Blase J. Cupich

The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them…

— Robert M. Morgenthau

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

— Andrei Sakharov

The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people.

— Cori Bush

“The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

— Lennie James

One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our…

— William J. Brennan

Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of…

— Gary Bauer

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of…

— Clint Smith

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have…

— Desmond Tutu