Cases Quote by Trey Gowdy

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

— Troy King

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

To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will…

— Mike Farrell

I think ultimately that the rules that you make for gun control, people who are intent on killing themselves aren't too concerned with the…

— Rand Paul

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

The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone…

— Jesse Ventura

Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them.…

— Charley Reese

The question is, does the punishment fit the crime? So we're not saying that we shouldn't punish people. We're not talking about a society…

— Valerie Jarrett

To suggest that it's OK to assassinate a president, I think is a felony. And I think that it should be.

— Newt Gingrich

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

— Paul Simon

...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories…

— Don Kates