Better off Quote by John Paul Stevens

The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the litigation level.…

— John McLaughlin

Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to…

— George Ryan

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

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

But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would…

— John Paul Stevens

I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and…

— David Letterman

“Nobody knew anyone else’s private world. In the end, they were all alone as inmates on death row, side by side. Sometimes you could…

— Janet Fitch

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there…

— Sister Helen Prejean

“Solitude is the worst of punishments. It’s like waiting in the Death Row for your last supper and the final blow, the chair or…

— Magdalena Ganowska

“Being a hangman requires you to take someone else’s life based on someone else’s judgment, and carry it out on someone else’s schedule. The…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic -…

— Richard LaGravenese