Time Quote by Steven Pinker

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned…

— Harry A. Blackmun

Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being…

— Jaroslav Hašek

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

— Paul Eldridge

“The trial wasn’t the finest hour of American justice as the treatment of the prisoners seemed medieval in its barbarism. Almost all of the…

— Ron Chernow

In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished…

— George Ryan

I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us…

— Mike Farrell

The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.

— Mohammed Hanif

“Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hangs upon the cross! This is the greatest sight you…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris—Europeans flocked to every form of painful death imaginable, free…

— Charles C. Mann

“How can people be punished when they are innocent?”

— Paul Scott

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it…

— Nellie Bly

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too…

— Dorothy L. Sayers