Top 1200 Death Penalty Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

If, through death penalty, we can create fears, though it's against my will, we have to do it.

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

I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.

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

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.

There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

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

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

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

There is a growing recognition that the death penalty simply can't work. It's a complex system that arbitrarily selects defendants for death and creates more stress and appeals, even as it is plagued by serious error. Each new exoneration reminds us of the unacceptable possibility of wrongful execution.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

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

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

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

There is no doubt that the most heinous crimes warrant the death penalty.

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

The death penalty has succeeded in America, not in spite of Christians, but because of us. The Bible Belt is the Death Belt. Wherever Christians are most concentrated is where executions are happening, and that's deeply troubling to me.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done.

A man convicted of murder is twenty times more likely than a woman convicted of murder to receive the death penalty. Since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty, 120 men and only 1 woman have actually been executed. The woman, from North Carolina, said she preferred to be executed. In North Carolina, a man who commits second-degree murder receives a sentence on average of 12.6 years longer than a woman who commits second-degree murder.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!

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

I think the death penalty's easier than life in prison.

The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.

God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.

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

I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

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

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

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

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

For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty.

Despite the courts efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just, fair and reliable, the system is not working. Innocent people are being sentenced to death......It is no answer to say that we are doing the best that we can. If this is the best our state can do, we have no business sending people to their deaths.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

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

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

New Hampshire has always shown prudence and responsibility in its application of the death penalty.

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

I don't believe in death penalty even though my background is soldiering.

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

Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.

Remember the death penalty is murder.

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.

My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.