Quotes About Execution
Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive -John Grisham, The Confession
I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives -George W. Bush, presidential debate, Oct. 17, 2000
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments -Guy de Maupassant, Collected series of Guy De Maupassant
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists -Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes of all of an offender's teeth in retribution -Jimmy Carter, Our Endangered Values
Death penalty is the number one killer of killers -Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It cannot be denied that in cases of child rape the question of consent cannot arise at all, simply because a child or worst still an infant lacks mental power or knowledge to provide "consent" or even lacks physical ability to restrain. Moreover such an act subjects the child/infant to physical trauma, leading to even physical, mental, and psychological ailment. To eliminate the horror from the face of the Earth, I firmly believe we need to except capital punishment as an apt punishment for subjecting a child to such an ordeal -Henrietta Newton Martin B. Com LLB goldmedalist LLM goldmedalist MMS etc- Legal Consultant
He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most -118
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 -Russ Feingold
Government... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably of fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill -Helen Prejean, Dead Man Walking
When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity -Anthony Kennedy, judicial opinion on Roper v. Sims, March 1, 2005