Against death penalty Quote by Russ Feingold

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

— Lu Xun

We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges who throw reason out the door, Too soft to place a…

— Roy Moore

“I have no doubt that we will one day abolish the death penalty in America. It will come sooner if people like me who…

— Helen Prejean

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country…

— Jimmy Carter

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

— Woody Allen

“Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in…

— Anton Chekhov

The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.

— N. Robert Hammer

As the world continues to turn away from the use of the death penalty, it is a glaring anomaly that China, Saudi Arabia, Iran…

— Irene Khan

For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear more would…

— Wendy Kaminer

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

Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial…

— Ramsey Clark

“I've come to read and hear many unlikely things about the times when people lived in freedom, i.e., the unorganized savage state. But the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin