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Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. — Thomas Francis Meagher

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference. — Ray Krone

The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. — Bob Butterworth

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years. — Mario Cuomo

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. — Coretta Scott King

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K. — Hilary Swank

After Chernobyl, thousands and thousands of people, if not millions, were given a death penalty and had to pay the price, our father among them. — Wladimir Klitschko

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not — Paul Simon

the death penalty, and the sooner the better. — John Grisham

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had. — John Waters

The death penalty can be imposed fairly only after carefully considering all the reasons why death might not be the appropriate sentence — Bryan Stevenson

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it. — Remy De Gourmont

The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country. — Arthur Koestler

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals. — R.J. Rushdoony

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act. — Raymond Pettibon

It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance. — Rudy Giuliani

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. — George Ryan

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought. — Stendhal

How shall a man be proud, when his conception is a crime, his birth a penalty, his life a labour, and death a necessity! - — Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here — Troy King

Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh? — Dennis Miller

The penalty for summoning the dead back to earth is death; if the summoned spirit does not kill its summoner, be assured the Church will. — Stacia Kane

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life. — Desmond Tutu

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him — George Plimpton

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in the
death penalty?"
he asked her.

"you mean being
sober?"
she laughed. — Christopher Poindexter

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd. — Dennis Miller

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it ... — Mahatma Gandhi

Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty. — Jay Leno

For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving. — Bill Maher

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families. — Rob McKenna

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians. — Bill Frist

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. — Alan Parker

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this. — Dalai Lama

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. — Andrew Cuomo

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent. — Steve Largent

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first. — Reginald Rose

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world. — N. T. Wright

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment. — John Spenkelink

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? — Brigitte Bardot

Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact. — Edward I. Koch

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. — Tim Kaine

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. — Frederick Forsyth

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much
less driving.
— Lawrence Lessig

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. — Angela Davis

As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty. — Joycelyn Elders

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment. — Scott Turow

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back. — Ron White

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate. — Margaret Cho

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. — Bill Paxton

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

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them? — Helen Prejean

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death. — George H. W. Bush

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison — Theodore Kaczynski

The death sentence is a barbaric act. — Nelson Mandela

I am against the death penalty. — Andrew Cuomo

I'm for a stronger death penalty. — George W. Bush

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid. — Bryan Stevenson

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. — Jon Stewart

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this. — Adel Al-Jubeir

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. — Janet Reno

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death. — Anne Rice

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

The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death. — Cassandra Danz

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty ... mine's putting in an express lane. — Ron White

Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there. — Clive Stafford Smith

I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. — George Ryan

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. — Jimmy Carter

Are you the sum total of your worst acts? — Bryan Stevenson

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. — Albert Camus

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated — George Gascon

The condemned man's voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. "Remember Father, evil is simply 'live' spelt backwards."

Hellbound — David McCaffrey

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with. — Steve Earle

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ... — Desmond Tutu

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God. — Mother Teresa

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that. — Rick Santorum

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

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida. — Jeb Bush

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. — Nancy Reagan