Words matter. These are the best Capital Punishment Quotes from famous people such as Steve Allen, Benjamin Tucker, Ted Cruz, Pete Buttigieg, Clint Eastwood, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.
I support capital punishment. But let’s be clear: It’s a decision for each state to make.
It’s time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.
I contend that it’s impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.
I wanted to say I don’t agree with capital punishment.
I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.
I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.
I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they’re quick to say, ‘Put them to death,’ or scream ‘capital punishment.’
Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
As an American I wanted to explore… why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we’re too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?
I’m very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I’m very much interested in upgrading the public school system… and taking a second look at capital punishment.
The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment – in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes – outweighs the risk of error.
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
Capital punishment is neither cruel nor unusual.
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
There’s only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It’s a mess.
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won’t be put to death.
