Death Penalty Quotes - Page 4

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

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

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.

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

I would say that there are a lot of people who currently disagree with the death penalty, I just hope that it's never one of their family members that is killed, because then they will probably change their mind on capital punishment.

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

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

It's not about whether you are innocent or guilty. It's about whether or not you can prove you're innocent. If you can't prove you're innocent, then you're considered guilty. It's been flipped: Now it's guilty until proven innocent.

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

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

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

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

There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

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

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

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.

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

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

The more you look at the death penalty, that's where you see that we're actually not killing the worst of the worst. We're killing the poorest of the poor. Where actually one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed is how many resources they have to defend themselves.

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