Believe Quote by Richard Viguerie

Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which we conservatives…

— Richard Viguerie

Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for…

— Jay Sekulow

It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small…

— Christy Clark

I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional.…

— Gil Garcetti

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

— Lennie James

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of…

— Dalai Lama

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due…

— Burke Marshall

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

— Dennis Miller

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

The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them…

— Robert M. Morgenthau

The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its…

— Larry Flynt