Believe Quote by Jodi Picoult

Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice…

— Antoinette Bosco

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

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes…

— Charlize Theron

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

— Orrin Hatch

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

— Tony Randall

The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans…

— Roger Ebert

The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the…

— Antonin Scalia

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are…

— Tony Goldwyn

I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are…

— Merle Haggard

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

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race,…

— Bryan Stevenson