Closure Quote by Rob McKenna

It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to…

— Shane Claiborne

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

— Martin O'Malley

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really,…

— Shane Claiborne

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

We have more families at risk with the death penalty. It targets the voiceless, the poor, people of color. And so it's important just…

— Susan Sarandon

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

— Vladimir Lenin

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

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where…

— Reid Hoffman

Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.

— Reid Hoffman

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

To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution…

— Ralph Nader

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

— Lennie James