Capital punishment Quote by Mario Puzo

It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree…I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried…

— Albert Pierrepoint

If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute…

— John C. McAdams

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

I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent effect on…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

— Paul Simon

“Now, on the subject of deterrence, I admit that there can be little doubt that as presently administered in the United States, the death…

— John Douglas

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon…

— Thurgood Marshall

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

— Edward Abbey

“The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.”

— Joel Norris

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

— Albert Camus

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

— Troy King

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

— Benjamin Tucker