Death Quote by Robert Falcon Scott

Because jurors have an extraordinary amount of power over the situation and of the people and the story in front of them, they tend…

— Zephyr Teachout

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and…

— John Adams

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense…

— E. P. Thompson

The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who…

— Kenneth C. Frazier

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the…

— Byron White

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 exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the…

— Anonymous

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction…

— Alexander Hamilton

Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect. One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone…

— Antonin Scalia

Legislators and judges are necessarily exposed to all the temptations of money, fame, and power, to induce them to disregard justice between parties, and…

— Lysander Spooner

The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot…

— Lysander Spooner

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

— Quentin Crisp