Clear Quote by John Morrison

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

— Cori Bush

The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its…

— Larry Flynt

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 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 only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone…

— Jesse Ventura

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially…

— Ralph Nader

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have…

— Desmond Tutu

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are…

— Blase J. Cupich

The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when…

— Jeanne Woodford

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all…

— Joseph Fiorenza

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

— Andrei Sakharov

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send…

— Ujjwal Nikam