107 Quotes About Death-penalty

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison

My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

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.

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?