Accountability Quote by Philip Alston

It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But…

— Karl Hess

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the…

— Jesse Ventura

You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.

— Joe Strummer

“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

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are…

— Tony Goldwyn

One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our…

— William J. Brennan

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

— Paul Simon

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

— Paul Simon

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

— Helen Prejean

In sorting out my feelings and beliefs, there is, however, one piece of moral ground of which I am absolutely certain: if I were…

— Anonymous

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right…

— Noam Chomsky

“Nonconsensual execution can never be humanely executed.”

— Mango Wodzak