Death Penalty Quotes - Page 3

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

The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process. Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.

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

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

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.

Remember the death penalty is murder.

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

The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

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.

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

The death sentence is a barbaric act.

Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!

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

It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.

From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.

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

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.

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

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

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

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

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