Death Quote by Larry Wilmore

Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in…

— Rand Paul

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

— Eazy-E

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

— Malcolm X

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

— Cori Bush

“In Chicago, two days later, two black people beat and robbed a “white boy” in revenge for Trayvon. Eighteen-year-old Alton Hayes III and his…

— Colin Flaherty

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because…

— A. Whitney Brown

“And that’s the terrible myth of organized society. That everything that’s done through the established system is legal. And that word has a powerful…

— William M. Kunstler

Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral…

— Bryan Stevenson

Blacks were more likely to be sentenced to prison following a conviction, but that result reflected their past crimes and the gravity of their…

— Heather Mac Donald

It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something…

— Chester Himes

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

— John Simon

“Emmett White became a firm, even unyielding, sheriff. Still, he showed remarkable consideration toward the people in his custody and insisted on making arrests…

— David Grann