Top 1200 Death Penalty Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

I'm totally against the death penalty - which, if anyone has a right to support, I do - because I do not see it as a deterrent to crime.

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

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

I don’t know why Glenn Murray took the penalty. I suppose because he is our penalty taker.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

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

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

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.

The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people.

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.

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

I stand with crime victims, members of the law enforcement community, and advocates for justice in opposing a repeal of 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.

If the penalty for hiring illegals is just a fine, it becomes a business decision. But if the penalty is jail time, illegal immigration will come to a screeching halt.

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

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

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.

The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.

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

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

The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed - it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

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

What President Trump is doing is, he wants to get rid of that Obamacare penalty almost immediately, because that is something that is really strangling a lot of Americans to have to pay a penalty for not buying.

I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.

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

I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

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

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

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death. Postal workers who get arrested, they have mental problems. You know what? When you're dead you don't have a mental problem. If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.

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

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

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

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.

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

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

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

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.

When you sit around at dinner talking about the death penalty, it's hard to find relevance in what color shoes will be next season.

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

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.

Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?

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

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.

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.

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it.

I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.

I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive.

By raising Christ from death, God as the supreme Judge set his seal to the absolute perfection and completeness of his atoning work. The resurrection is a public announcement to the world that the penalty of death has been borne by Christ to its bitter end and that in consequence the dominion of guilt has been broken, the curse annihilated forever more.