Appearance Quote by Jamie Fellner

For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would…

— Wendy Kaminer

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

“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

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just…

— Richard Paul Evans

“My point is not to grieve for the victims and denounce the executioners. Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral…

— Howard Zinn

Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in…

— Anton Chekhov

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned…

— Harry A. Blackmun

The threat is stronger than the execution.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

“But the punishment-body relation is not the same as it was in the torture during public executions. The body now serves as an instrument…

— Michel Foucault

Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social, and political forces…

— Michelle Alexander