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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. — Noam Chomsky

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

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same. — Philemon

Put to death? I thought God was supposed to be all about forgiveness, not the death penalty. — Jessica Verdi

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

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing! — Victor Hugo

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

Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is. — George W. Bush

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

People who change their religion should face the death penalty. — Zakir Naik

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

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. — Woody Allen

The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes. — Sophocles

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

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty. — Kinky Friedman

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

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed. — Kinky Friedman

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

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. — Eric Holder

This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases. — George W. Bush

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

The death penalty makes us all murderers. — Dean Smith

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

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

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. — Alphonse Karr

I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal. — Ann Coulter

They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of! — Brad McKinniss

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

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. — Bobby Scott

Edith Wharton with the death penalty — Simon Sebag Montefiore

The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty. — Quentin Crisp

I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost. — Troy King

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. — N. T. Wright

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough. — Rod Dreher

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

Remember, the death penalty is murder. — Robert Drew

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

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to. — Anton Chekhov

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death. — Marquis De Sade

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. — Jane Birkin

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair. — George Gascon

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it? — Tony Randall

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. — George Ryan

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country. — Dennis Miller

Death penalty is the number one killer of killers. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

[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

The death penalty is inhumane ... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden. — Danny Glover

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

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

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

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

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

The death sentence is a barbaric act. — Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

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

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

I am against the death penalty. — Andrew Cuomo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

do you believe
in the
death penalty?"
he asked her.

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

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

Hellbound — David McCaffrey

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

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

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