Appropriate Quote by Mike Farrell

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

“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

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the…

— Jesse Ventura

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

— Edward Abbey

Till a person is proven guilty, no one should attack him or her.

— Salim Kumar

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

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

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These…

— Anonymous

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

— Woody Allen

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country…

— Jimmy Carter

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately…

— Potter Stewart

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.

— Justinian I