52 Quotes About Capital-punishment

It's been so strange, Bryan. More people have asked me what they can do to help in the last fourteen hours of my life than ever asked me in the years I was coming up.

I feel like they done put me on death row, too What do we tell these children about how to stay out of harms way when you can be at your own house, minding your own business, surrounded by your entire family, and they still put some murder on you that you ain't do and send you to death row?

Being close to suffering, death, executions, and cruel punishments didn't just illuminate the brokenness of others; in a moment of anguish and heartbreak, it also exposed my own brokenness. You can't effectively fight abusive power, poverty, inequality, illness, oppression, or injustice and not be broken by it.

Why do we want to kill all the broken people?

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

...judicial execution can never cancel or remove the atrocity it seeks to punish: it can only add a second atrocity to the original one.

The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.

Capital punishment could not be justified in any society calling itself civilized.

What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. The prospect of the gallows, too, makes them hardy and bold. Ah, it’s a fine thing for the trade! Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!