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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
The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe fear and awe of the State. — Edward Abbey
Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
— William J. Clinton
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
— Henry Ford
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
— Jesse Jackson
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
— Benjamin Tucker
The main objection to killing people as a punishment ... is that killing people is wrong
— Auberon Waugh
Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.
— John Spenkelink
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
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
— James Madison
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
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
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.
Abstractions about capital punishment were one thing, but the details of systematically killing someone who is not a threat are completely different.
— Bryan Stevenson
Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.
— Anjem Choudary
Jesus is the most famous victim of capital punishment.
— James Martin
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
— Albert Camus
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
— Jerzy Kosinski
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
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.
— Oliver North
Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.
— George Orwell
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
— Werner Herzog
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
