Court Quote by Thomas Sowell

More than 100 people have been sent to death row who were later exonerated because they weren't guilty or fairly tried. Most criminal defendants…

— John Grisham

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

— Anthony Ray Hinton

“Most of the people on Death Row are here for no other reason than that their case got more publicity than others. The difference…

— Damien Echols

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human…

— John Grisham

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

— Quentin Crisp

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had…

— George W. Bush

Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through it, you're…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who…

— Antoinette Bosco

But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would…

— John Paul Stevens

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most…

— Dylan McDermott