Books Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

States without the death penalty have had consistently lower murder rates. And national murder rates have declined steadily since 1992, despite fewer executions.

— S.E. Cupp

States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions.…

— Pope Francis

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

— Paul Simon

Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate…

— Don Feder

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

— Paul Simon

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

— Lennie James

“Today capital punishment is widely seen as a human rights violation. In 2007 the UN General Assembly voted 105–54 (with 29 abstentions) to declare…

— Steven Pinker

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill…

— Ron White

I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes…

— Albert Pierrepoint

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who…

— Antoinette Bosco

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

— Cori Bush