Color Quote by Susan Sarandon

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's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to…

— Shane Claiborne

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

— Martin O'Malley

The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the…

— Helen Prejean

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

— Rob McKenna

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really,…

— Shane Claiborne

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

— Lennie James

Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have…

— Gil Garcetti

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small…

— Susan Sarandon

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due…

— Burke Marshall

I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said…

— Troy King

The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing…

— Shane Claiborne