Capital punishment Quote by Woody Allen

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

— Edward Abbey

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

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send…

— Ujjwal Nikam

I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent…

— John Paul Stevens

I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent effect on…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness and given…

— Tani Cantil-Sakauye

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

— Albert Camus

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

— Bill Maher

If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute…

— John C. McAdams

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity…

— Scott Turow