Death Penalty Quotes

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

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

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.

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.

Poor Ramon.

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

My belief that everyone is a person, no matter what they’ve done, and that taking a human life is wrong.

They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governm

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

The condemned man’s voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. “Remember Father, evil is simply ‘live’ spelt backwards." Hellbound

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction, " said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

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

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

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

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

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

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

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