Death Penalty Quotes

Death Penalty Quote of the day

If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.

Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself 'Pro-Life.'

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

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

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

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.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

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

It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.

It should be clear that the death penalty does just the opposite of promoting decency and respect for life. It dehumanizes people and promotes murder. It can never be applied fairly.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

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.

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

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.

Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.

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

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

In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

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.

I am against the death penalty.

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

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

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

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

People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.

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

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

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.

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.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

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

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

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

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

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

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