Best Death Penalty Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.”

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“Criminals, people who commit crimes, usually society rejects these people. They are also part of our society. Give them some form of punishment to say they were wrong, but show them they are part of society and can change. Show them compassion.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done.”

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Author:Mamie Till

“I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life. We cannot support any act of killing; no killing can be justified. But not to kill is not enough ... If in your thinking you allow the killing to go on, you also break this precept. We must be determined not to condone killing, even in our minds.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred.”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“We as the Church need to express wherever appropriate and wherever possible our stance against the death penalty. We need to talk about it. A lot of people don't feel comfortable in doing this but I think we need to, as the Pope says, preach the whole gospel of life.”

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Author:Gabino Zavala

“It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.”

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Author:Joseph Lowery

“I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system.”

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Author:Tim McDonald

“When the state executes a member of the human family, it declares that person worthless, without possibility of redemption. As Christians, we believe this is a heresy, a denial that each human being is created in God's own image.”

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Author:Doug Davidson

“To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“We need some clergy with some backbone, who don't mind making uncomfortable at times those who are very comfortable, and challenging them at the core of their faith, at least causing them to pause and to have dialogue and to be open for further discussion.”

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Author:Tim McDonald

“It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.”

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Author:Joseph Lowery

“I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent to a senseless murder ... But even as a child, one thing was clear to me: I didn't want the killer, in turn, to be killed. I remember lying in bed and praying, Please, God. Please don't take his life, too. I saw nothing that could be accomplished in the loss of one life being answered with the loss of another.”

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Author:Kerry Kennedy

“You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.”

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Author:Russ Feingold

“To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.”

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Author:George Will

“A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.”

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Book:Crime in America

Source: Crime in America

“California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers and counselors in their schools and giving the juvenile justice system the resources it needs.”

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Author:Gil Garcetti

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

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Author:Dalai Lama

“People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.”

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Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.”

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Book:The Road to Wigan Pier

Source: The Road to Wigan Pier

“I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment.”

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Author:Mike Farrell

“There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does; there are certain principles which limit this right. Society has got the murderer within four walls; he never can do any more harm. Has society any need to take that man's life to protect itself? If any society has only the right that the individual has, she has no right to inflict the penalty of death, because she can effectually restrain the individual from ever again committing his offence.”

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Author:Wendell Phillips

“It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The fact of the matter is that as a viable penalty, capital punishment does not work at this time and has not worked in the State of Florida for many, many years.”

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Author:Gerald Kogan

“From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.”

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Author:Jay Smith

“The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.”

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Author:Bob Butterworth

“Commute me, execute me. Don't drag it out.”

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Author:Jesse Bishop

“Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.”

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Author:John Spenkelink

“I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.”

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Author:Bill McCollum

“The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.”

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Author:Bryan Stevenson

“As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.”

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Author:John R. Dunne

“For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.”

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Author:James Frey

“Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which we conservatives know are rife with injustice.”

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Author:Richard Viguerie

“I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it really is a moral view, and that is that the taking of life is not the way to handle even the most significant of crimes...Who amongst anyone is not above redemption? I think we have to be careful in executing final judgment. The one thing my faith teaches me-I don't get to play God. I think you are short-cutting the whole process of redemption...I don't want to be the person that stops that process from taking place.”

“When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.”

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Author:Jim Petro

“I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.”

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Author:Bill O'Reilly

“I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.”

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Author:Oliver North

“For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.”

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Author:Kathleen Parker

“At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.”

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Author:Rod Dreher

“My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people might die as a result. Thus, I personally oppose capital punishment.”

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Author:Ed Crane

“The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness.”

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Author:Greg Zoeller

“It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.”

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Author:Christy Clark

“If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.”

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Author:Sandra Day O'Connor

“It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.”

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Author:L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

“I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.”

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Author:Paul Jacob

“After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions.”

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Author:Ron Paul

“Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection of our courts. Through DNA testing, we don't always get it right, even with that.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.”

Thinking Penalties Death Penalty

Author:Evelyn Lundberg Stratton

“This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?”

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Author:Antonin Scalia

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