Execution Quote by Lu Xun

The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing…

— Shane Claiborne

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

— Russ Feingold

For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would…

— Wendy Kaminer

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 calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The…

— William J. Brennan

Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate…

— Don Feder

“I have no doubt that we will one day abolish the death penalty in America. It will come sooner if people like me who…

— Helen Prejean

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

“If I went on a killing spree that left thousands of people dead, I'd be branded as the worst kind of criminal. So why…

— Michel Templet

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James

The only thing government does better than killing is lying and covering things up.

— Edward Britton

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

— Steve Earle