Crime Quote by Robert M. Morgenthau

It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote…

— Rudy Giuliani

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 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

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

— Seneca the Younger

Prosecutors use the conspiracy doctrine to punish two or more people who merely agree to commit a criminal act. They don't even have to…

— Neal Katyal

“They have secret weapons that break the heart of innocents, elevate stress levels, shoot down to make it look guilt. They can burn from…

— Maria Karvouni

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

— Stephen Breyer

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

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

— George Gascon

I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison,

— Pamela Smart

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 good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the…

— Gaspar Noe