Becoming Quote by Torbjorn Tannsjo

It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree…I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried…

— Albert Pierrepoint

Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of…

— Elizabeth Fry

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon…

— Thurgood Marshall

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately…

— Potter Stewart

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are…

— Tony Goldwyn

There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It…

— Jimmy Carter

Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate…

— Don Feder

There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency,…

— Albert Camus

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

— Mario Puzo

My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent…

— Ed Crane

“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be…

— Albert Camus