Crime Quote by Ovid

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are…

— Gary Bauer

As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder…

— Howard Dean

Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

— Ovid

It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping - who…

— Christopher Hitchens

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

— Plato

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty,…

— Cori Bush

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what…

— Jonathan Shapiro

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

— Kinky Friedman

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

— Bill Parcells

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

— Rick Santorum

The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.

— Ralph Northam

If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and…

— H. L. Mencken