Agree Quote by Paul Jacob

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

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

— Marquis de Sade

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

— Nancy Reagan

I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save…

— George W. Bush

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who…

— Antoinette Bosco

“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system…

— Neil Gaiman

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me,…

— Steve Earle

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

— George Ryan

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA evidence, which…

— Al Gore

“For the average civilized person to whom, as to Patrick Henry, even death is acceptable in the absence of liberty.”

— Federico Mangahas

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

— Marquis de Lafayette