Activity Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the…

— Ramsey Clark

“...it is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still…

— John Stuart Mill

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

What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners?

— Albert Camus

“If life on death row is safer than life on the streets, it's hard to believe that the fear of execution is a driving…

— Levitt & Dubner

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

“If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.”

— Lao Tzu

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just…

— Richard Paul Evans

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

I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign,…

— Alex Kozinski

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