52 Quotes About Capital-punishment

If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.

I think he killed someone already. Capital offense an’ all that.”Bailey tilted her head to one side. “That’s something that never made sense to me,” she said.“What?”“The death penalty. I mean, how does killing someone prove that killing people is wrong?

It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant.

Does the act of incarceration work as deterrent against crime?""No act can be a deterrent as long as the need or desperation to offend is greater.

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

Rot! Absolute rot! Hatch was merely an alias of Holmes. He had as many as a city directory, but he used the name Hatch frequently. If Hatch did the killing, Holmes will hang for it, for Holmes and Hatch are one and the same person,' Linden said.

Your Honor, I just want to say this before we adjourn. It was far too easy to convict this wrongly accused man for murder and send him to death row for something he didn't do and much too hard to win his freedom after proving his innocence. We have serious problems and important work that must be done in this state.

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.