Amendments Quote by Phil Donahue

“I have no doubt that we will one day abolish the death penalty in America. It will come sooner if people like me who…

— Helen Prejean

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

By requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted…

— John Paul Stevens

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

I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign,…

— Alex Kozinski

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

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

— Lu Xun

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus

The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

— N. Robert Hammer

“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

If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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