Bad government Quote by Joseph Story

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government…

— Alexander Hamilton

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

— Joseph Story

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

— Lu Xun

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

— N. Robert Hammer

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

— Anonymous

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

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

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

— Kate Mulgrew

There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death and creates…

— Robert Cecil Martin

In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished…

— George Ryan

“Nonconsensual execution can never be humanely executed.”

— Mango Wodzak