Capital Punishment Quotes
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I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
— Tony Campolo
Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment."Student: "Prone. — Kristin Hannah
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
— Maimonides
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
— Kate Millett
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
— Woody Allen
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
— William J. Clinton
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
— Alfred De Vigny
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
— George Bernard Shaw
I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
— Ted Cruz
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
— George Will
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
— Richard Attenborough
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
— Geoffrey Fisher
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.
— Christopher Hitchens
Why do we want to kill all the broken people?
— Bryan Stevenson
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
— Brendan Behan
Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.
— S.A. Tawks
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
— Mort Sahl
The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.
— Cesare Beccaria
The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.
— Joel Norris
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.
— Bill O'Reilly
Judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one.
— Auberon Waugh
The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.
— Anton Chekhov
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
— Mario Puzo
Capital punishment ... treats members of the human race ... as objects to be toyed with and discarded.
— William J. Brennan
Jesus is the most famous victim of capital punishment.
— James Martin
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
— Jerzy Kosinski
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
— Werner Herzog
Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.
— Anjem Choudary
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
— Paul Simon
We make needless ado about capital punishment,taking lives, when there is no life to take. — Henry David Thoreau
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.
— George Orwell
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.
— Oliver North
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
— Albert Camus
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
— Jesse Jackson
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
— Henry Ford
Abstractions about capital punishment were one thing, but the details of systematically killing someone who is not a threat are completely different.
— Bryan Stevenson
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.
— Anna Quindlen
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
— James Madison
If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.
— Anton Chekhov
Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.
— John Spenkelink
The main objection to killing people as a punishment ... is that killing people is wrong
— Auberon Waugh
