Death Penalty Quotes - Page 5

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

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

To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

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

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

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 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.

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.