Death Penalty Quotes

If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation.

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man.

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.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call.

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.

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.

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.

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.

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

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

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

The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.

I am against the death penalty.

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