Catholic Quote by Shane Claiborne

I happen to be catholic, and I heard that the pope was asking that we abolish the death penalty and I would have to…

— John Cabello

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

There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It…

— Jimmy Carter

I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we…

— Shane Claiborne

When you look at the Bible, and I read the Bible very seriously, for a lot of my life, I believed the Bible ordained…

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Lennie James

I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about it, because…

— Stephen Colbert

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

“Now, on the subject of deterrence, I admit that there can be little doubt that as presently administered in the United States, the death…

— John Douglas

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 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

It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes…

— John Morrison