Criminal law Quote by Neil Gaiman

“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.”

— Nancy Reagan

With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not…

— Elie Wiesel

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

— Jack Kevorkian

“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

“The death penalty costs too much. Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the…

— Helen Prejean

The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the…

— Gaspar Noe

I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who…

— Hilary Swank

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

— Alan Parker

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

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

— Andrei Sakharov

“A fatal penalty awaits those who always look on the dark side of everything, who are always predicting evil and failure, who see only…

— Orison Swett Marden

“We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we have not…

— Victor Hugo