“Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.” FeltDiseaseOriginalsPatientIllCancerSentencesSensesLiedBreast CancerObsceneCancer PatientsDeath Sentence Book:Illness as metaphor Source: Illness as metaphor
“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.” YearsGovernmentMistakeConditionsSentencesMaking MistakesDeath PenaltyLikelihoodInvokeDeath Sentence Author:Ron Paul
“The death sentence is a barbaric act.” SentencesDeath PenaltyBarbaricDeath Sentence Author:Nelson Mandela
“The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.” HumansStillsHuman BeingsAnimalReflectionInstinctSentencesDeath PenaltyBarbaricDeath SentenceAnimal Instinct Author:Nelson Mandela
“My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.” MotherGaySentencesBeing GayGay PrideDeath Sentence Author:Jai Rodriguez
“There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).” IfsReasonEnoughProcessJusticePracticeCasesEventsEasierDemandFindingsEvidenceConcernTraditionBasesConstitutionClaimsHarderCourtPrisonMereConvictionBurdenSentencesContemporaryInnocentInnocenceReachingConsiderationNo ReasonRoutineExecutionDeath PenaltyJudicialImposingFactualAnalyzingRepetitiveCriminal Justice SystemDeath Sentence Author:Antonin Scalia
“One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.” ThinkingWould BeAgeChristianGrowthChurchPeriodsObstaclesSentencesChristian InspirationalPersecutionJoiningDeath SentenceChurch Growth Author:Gene Veith
“The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.” LightRiskSeriousPrejudiceSentencesProceedingFinalityRacial PrejudiceDeath Sentence Author:Byron White
“Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.” CrimeTaxesVictimDollarsCommittedSentencesSpendingFewerLaw EnforcementPreventingDeath SentenceTax Dollars Author:Gil Garcetti
“It’s funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film Death Sentence [2007], and I got back with him again in Inside Llewyn Davis.” YearsFilmFatherFiveSonSixYears AgoSentencesFather And SonDeath SentenceGoodman Author:Garrett Hedlund
“We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.” RealJusticeSentencesMillionaireHeadlinesLegal SystemDeath Sentence Author:Garrison Wynn
“My brother the vampire, whose kiss was a slow death sentence, had a stable and loving relationship with a girl who was crazy about him. By contrast, I could barely talk to a woman, at least about anything pertaining to a relationship. Given that my only long-term girlfriends had faked their own death, died, and broken free of enslaving enchantments to end the relationship, the empirical evidence seemed to indicate that he knew something I didn't. Keep your life tonight, Harry. Complicate it tomorrow.” LongEndsGirlGivenTermCrazyBrotherBrokenTomorrowKissingEvidenceDiedSentencesVampireLong TermGirlfriendMy BrotherTonightContrastStableLoving LifeEnchantmentDeath SentenceLoving RelationshipsEmpirical Evidence Author:Jim Butcher
“AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.” TodayDiseaseIllnessSentencesAidsTreatedChronic IllnessDeath SentenceWorld Aids Day Author:Yusuf Hamied
“What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date.” HappenedCrimeJewSentencesDeath Sentence Author:Simon Wiesenthal
“The age of 40 is not a death sentence.” AgeSentencesBoxingAge Of 40Death Sentence Author:George Foreman