Capital punishment Quote by Richard Cohen

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

— Deborah Moggach

The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another, not even…

— Antoinette Bosco

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the…

— Jeff Lindsay

On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive…

— Paul Bloom

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

— Henry Ford

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty…

— Coretta Scott King

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

— Banksy

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

— Orrin Hatch

Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the…

— Ramsey Clark