Days of the week Quote by Peter Benenson

For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would…

— Wendy Kaminer

In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished…

— George Ryan

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected…

— Naomi Klein

“Political prisoners describe: - extreme physical and emotional torture - distortion of language, truth, meaning and reality - sham killings - begin repeatedly taken…

— Laurie Matthew

“Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's committed and…

— John Flanagan

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment,…

— Peter Benenson

When you torture a person for long periods you might get a very passionate human rights defender but most probably you will get a…

— Yanar Mohammed

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be…

— John Cusack

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is…

— John Howard

Anyone who has been tortured, remains tortured.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“All sanctions stoning to death and honor killings that have implemented and applied in Islamic countries, are only murders with premeditation! Accomplices in the…

— Amany Al-Hallaq

He who slanders the victim aids the executioner.

— Leon Trotsky