Barbarity Quote by Mike Farrell

People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death penalty ignore…

— Thomas Sowell

How come life in prison doesn't mean life? Until it does, we're not ready to do away with the death penalty. Stop thinking in…

— Jesse Ventura

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous…

— Scott Harshbarger

Society may protect itself without putting a human to death as it would a wild animal. Since we believe each person has a soul,…

— Richard Viguerie

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

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective…

— Catherine the Great

... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter…

— Mary B. Harris

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day…

— Marquis de Sade

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution…

— Ralph Nader

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

— Nick Yarris

“Imprisonment is the form of punishment which may detrimentally affect not only the offender but also his family and his employment and because of…

— P.W. Thirion

If we put everyone on life in prison (no parole), they would be full and overcrowded. They already are. Some prisoners may prefer the…

— Glen Rambharack