Attributes Quote by Jay Leno

People are saying that Rick Perry is really tough because he has executed over 200 people. And that was just while he was on…

— Conan O'Brien

On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution.

— Susanna Reid

We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have…

— John Grisham

“Most of the people on Death Row are here for no other reason than that their case got more publicity than others. The difference…

— Damien Echols

I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90…

— Scott Turow

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human…

— John Grisham

In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished…

— George Ryan

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There…

— Gene Weingarten

“If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving…

— Levitt & Dubner

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

— Anthony Ray Hinton

States without the death penalty have had consistently lower murder rates. And national murder rates have declined steadily since 1992, despite fewer executions.

— S.E. Cupp