Death Penalty Quotes

The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.

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

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out.

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

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

The advent of DNA testing, and the number of convictions thrown out, has confirmed that we've put LOTS of innocent people to death. There need not be any other argument against death penalty.

[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

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.

I'm for a stronger death penalty.

If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death.

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

The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it.

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

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who was murdered by the state, though innocent.

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

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

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

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

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.

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

I don't believe in the death penalty. I believe that there are other people as we speak right now in prison, wrongfully accused, who could serve such a fate. That is injustice at its greatest.

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

Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.

Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.

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

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

The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone to get the death penalty.

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.

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

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

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

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives 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.

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

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

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

I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

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.

I find that students are very strong on my issues, stronger than anyone: anti-death penalty, anti-racial profiling, campaign finance reform, questioning the anti-terrorism bill.

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.

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

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.

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

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

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