Accomplishment Quote by Quentin Crisp

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they…

— Thomas Sowell

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous…

— Scott Harshbarger

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

— Paul Simon

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would…

— John Diefenbaker

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in…

— William J. Brennan

“The views of the Courts in regard to imprisonment have however undergone modification in the last ten years. Imprisonment is seen more and more…

— V.G. Hiemstra

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country…

— Jimmy Carter

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it…

— Atom Egoyan

There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death and creates…

— Robert Cecil Martin

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated

— George Gascon

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon…

— Thurgood Marshall