107 Quotes About Death-penalty



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

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  • Author Margaret Cho
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    Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

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  • Author Noam Chomsky
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    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.

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

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

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