Approval Quote by John Paul Stevens

By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted…

— John Paul Stevens

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus

Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish; it can only add a second atrocity to the original one…

— Auberon Waugh

I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes…

— Albert Pierrepoint

The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

— N. Robert Hammer

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of…

— Albert Einstein

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it…

— Atom Egoyan

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned…

— Harry A. Blackmun

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These…

— Anonymous

The threat is stronger than the execution.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

— Kate Mulgrew

“...judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one.”

— Auberon Waugh