Capital punishment Quote by Stephen Colbert

As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the…

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways of protecting…

— Shane Claiborne

While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made…

— Lord Acton

If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of…

— Avery Dulles

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

— Geoffrey Fisher

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

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

— Banksy

I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments.

— Roger Mahony

It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.

— Andrew Cuomo

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

— Zakir Naik