Answers Quote by Scott Turow

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the…

— Jeff Lindsay

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately…

— Potter Stewart

For one, as I've written before, the death penalty is plainly unjust. When the number of wrongful convictions and death penalty cases that are…

— S.E. Cupp

Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream…

— Jeff Lindsay

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity…

— Scott Turow

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon…

— Thurgood Marshall

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

— Kinky Friedman

Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially…

— Ralph Nader

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

— Henry Ford

Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent people are…

— Moses Harrison

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

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

— George Gascon