Punishment Quote by Jerzy Kosinski

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

— Lionel Jospin

I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment… We cannot ignore the fact that in recent…

— John Paul Stevens

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

— John Spenkelink

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately…

— Potter Stewart

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

— Pete Buttigieg

Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

— Albert Pierrepoint

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

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

— Pope John Paul II

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.

— Pasquier Quesnel

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

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

— Jerry Brown

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

— William Ellery Channing