Against death penalty Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg Download Open image “People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Against death penalty Capital punishment Death Death penalty Penalties People Punishment Trials Wells
I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same. — Philemon Copy Share Image
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith… — Aaron Hill Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Work hard on each opinion, but once the case is decided, don't look back; go on to the next case and give it your… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American.… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If you ask judges, do you always agree on everything? Of course not, we divide just as you do. Why aren't you transparent about… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
One thing that concerns me is that today's young women don't seem to care that we have a fundamental instrument of government that makes… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until 1981 that… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it. I had a life partner who thought… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
When you poll snake person Christians, Christians born after 1980, it's like 80% of them are against the death penalty. It's not because they've… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. — Alan Parker Copy Share Image
With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk about it.… — Gabino Zavala Copy Share Image
The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race,… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death, — Harry A. Blackmun Copy Share Image
