A Quote by Maimonides

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

Maimonides

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Maimonides
Spanish - Philosopher
March 30, 1135 - December 12, 1204

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

Gary Johnson

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Benjamin Franklin

Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

George Bernard Shaw

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

Ian McShane

It's not about whether you are innocent or guilty. It's about whether or not you can prove you're innocent. If you can't prove you're innocent, then you're considered guilty. It's been flipped: Now it's guilty until proven innocent.

Ronald Jones

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Brent Weeks

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.