52 Quotes About Capital-punishment

It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.