Capital Punishment Quotes

Capital Punishment Quote of the day

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime - for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.

Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.

Of all parties I now see only one party- The Anarchist- which respects human life, and loudly insists upon the abolition of capital punishment, prison torture and punishment of man by man altogether.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

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.

If the Khalifah implements even one law outside of the divine law, then he will be removed. The courts will face him and he will face capital punishment and he will be removed.

Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded.

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.