Execution Quote by Steve Earle Download Open image “It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.” — Steve Earle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Execution Family Family members Irresponsible Members Victim Witness
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I've seen lots of murders, no murder is ever nice, and I just don't think the victim's family has an opportunity to get all… — John Cabello Copy Share Image
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal. — Niecy Nash Copy Share Image
The possibility of sending an innocent person to their death is a reason why I'm against the death penalty. — Susanna Reid Copy Share Image
Dangerous acts can be done safely in a community which thinks and feels rightly, which would be the way to hell if they were… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign,… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that you're not… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last Tin Pan… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
I think the singer/songwriter genre is going to be like bluegrass and jazz. You can make a living at it, but it's not part… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps. — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Cooking brings me so much joy. I love everything, down to the execution of the plate to picking out fresh ingredients at the market.… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
