Death Penalty Quotes
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Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged. (Death Penalty Quotes)
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. (Death Penalty Quotes)
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. (Death Penalty Quotes)
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. (Death Penalty Quotes)
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I’m killing somebody. (Death Penalty Quotes)
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message. (Death Penalty Quotes)
Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. (Death Penalty Quotes)
There’s a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn’t mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. (Death Penalty Quotes)
The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? (Death Penalty Quotes)
If you’re stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty (Death Penalty Quotes)
The death penalty doesn’t need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference. (Death Penalty Quotes)
Homicide’s illegal and death is the penalty What justifies the homicide when he dies? (Death Penalty Quotes)
I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period. (Death Penalty Quotes)
Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact (Death Penalty Quotes)
The system is not perfect. Until it’s perfect, let’s do away with the death penalty. (Death Penalty Quotes)
The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it’s bin Laden. (Death Penalty Quotes)
I’m very glad that [the death penalty] hasn’t existed for many years in the U.K (Death Penalty Quotes)
I’m pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row. (Death Penalty Quotes)
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . (Death Penalty Quotes)
I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they’re not liberal. (Death Penalty Quotes)
I am against the death penalty (Death Penalty Quotes)
I think life is sacred, whether it’s abortion or the death penalty (Death Penalty Quotes)
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons (Death Penalty Quotes)
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty (Death Penalty Quotes)
Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life (Death Penalty Quotes)
I am constantly amazed by man’s inhumanity to man (Death Penalty Quotes)
People who change their religion should face the death penalty (Death Penalty Quotes)
Remember, the death penalty is murder (Death Penalty Quotes)
I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished (Death Penalty Quotes)
The death penalty doesn’t need your assent to continue... it needs your indifference (Death Penalty Quotes)