Assembly Quote by Helen Prejean

The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing…

— Shane Claiborne

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 is reserved for people who do not

— Paul Simon

We have more families at risk with the death penalty. It targets the voiceless, the poor, people of color. And so it's important just…

— Susan Sarandon

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

— Cori Bush

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral…

— Bryan Stevenson

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon…

— Thurgood Marshall

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

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

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

— Lennie James

I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If…

— Harry A. Blackmun

“The death penalty costs too much. Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the…

— Helen Prejean