New Hampshire has always shown prudence and responsibility in its application of the death penalty.
My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I’m killing somebody.
It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.
Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.
I’m totally against the death penalty – which, if anyone has a right to support, I do – because I do not see it as a deterrent to crime.
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
I stand with crime victims, members of the law enforcement community, and advocates for justice in opposing a repeal of the death penalty.
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty – and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.
I’m really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.
The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to 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.
Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That’s how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn’t change through a Constitution.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly – more ‘efficient’ – will inevitably make it less just.
The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.
I’m actually really opposed to the death penalty.
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table – it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
I believe in the death penalty.
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don’t like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America’s death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty, he must do everything in his power to stop it for good.
Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or ‘the ability to vote with your feet.’ If you don’t support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol – don’t come to Texas. If you don’t like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California.
The death penalty system is fundamentally flawed – it is inequitable, ineffective, and it has no place in this Commonwealth or this country.
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
If, through death penalty, we can create fears, though it’s against my will, we have to do it.
It’s a rare pro-lifer who is against the death penalty, who’s against all war, who favors, you know, all the things people need to flourish and stay healthy in life. They’ve tied themselves to the Republican Party, which doesn’t support any of that.
There is no place for the death penalty in a just, humane society.
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America’s death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.
I believe in the death penalty.
It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.
When the state imposes the death penalty, it proclaims that taking one human life counterbalances the taking of another life. This assumption is profoundly mistaken.
There is no doubt that the most heinous crimes warrant the death penalty.
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don’t have executions.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don’t like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.
I would say, people use labels all the time, but I’m kind of a traditional Catholic: Personally, I’m opposed to abortion, and personally, I’m opposed to the death penalty.
No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, ‘I was against the death penalty,’ because they replaced ‘soft on communism’ with ‘soft on crime.’ You just see the horror of this thing.
I don’t have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.
The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.
The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.
I don’t believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.
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