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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty (Death Penalty Quotes)
If the death penalty is to be abolished, let those gentlemen, the murderers, do it first (Death Penalty Quotes)
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery (Death Penalty Quotes)
The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill (Death Penalty Quotes)
Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate (Death Penalty Quotes)
I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else (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)
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)
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us (Death Penalty Quotes)
Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who will live and who will die for his crime turns less on the nature of the offense and the incorrigibility of the offender and more on inappropriate and indefensible considerations: the political and personal inclinations of prosecutors; the defendant’s wealth, race and intellect; the race and economic status of the victim; the quality of the defendant’s counsel; and the resources allocated to defense lawyers (Death Penalty Quotes)
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium (Death Penalty Quotes)
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, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life (Death Penalty Quotes)
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 is clear that there are overwhelming ethical, financial, and religious reasons to abolish the death penalty (Death Penalty Quotes)
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it (Death Penalty Quotes)
Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say (Death Penalty Quotes)
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers (Death Penalty Quotes)
The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off (Death Penalty Quotes)
It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty (Death Penalty Quotes)
It is fairly obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not (Death Penalty Quotes)
Labor has a universal position of opposition to the death penalty both at home and abroad... It is not possible in our view to be selective in the application of this policy (Death Penalty Quotes)
I don? T think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don? T think that? S right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people? S lives (Death Penalty Quotes)
Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent (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)
Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is (Death Penalty Quotes)
I don’t think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don’t think that’s right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people’s lives (Death Penalty Quotes)
This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases (Death Penalty Quotes)
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty (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)
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty (Death Penalty Quotes)
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another (Death Penalty Quotes)