Memorable Capital Punishment And Death Penalty Quotes

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"I shall ask for the abolition of the penalty of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me."
Marquis de Lafayette
"I do not believe that the taking of a life extinguishes another life, it simply changes the form. Death is not the end, it is a transition."
Billy Graham
"The state is not God. It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if proven wrong."
Anton Chekhov
"I would not wish any companion in the world but you."
William Shakespeare
"Hanging a man is a heroic act."
G.K. Chesterton
"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
Abraham Lincoln
"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."
Alphonse de Lamartine
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"The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime."
Marian Wright Edelman
"I don't see any great difference between the gas chamber and the electric chair, being burned to death or being drowned in gas. It's all cruel."
Lester Bangs
"I think capital punishment works in some instances."
Pat Robertson
"Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life."
Orrin Hatch
"However hideous the monster, he is still my brother."
Robert E. Howard
"The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment."
Kofi Annan
"Capital punishment is against the better judgment of modern humanity."
Henry Ford
"Show me a country where there is no capital punishment and I'll show you a country where crime is rampant. Capital punishment is a deterrent."
Sorious Samura
"I am against the death penalty."
Andrew Cuomo
"I'm against the death penalty because, first of all, it is state-sponsored killing."
Jesse Jackson
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."
Mahatma Gandhi
"I have labored carefully, not to ridicule, not to lament, nor to condemn, but to understand."
Baruch Spinoza
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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"Human rights must be the heart of our policy."
Jimmy Carter
"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"We have a justice system that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent."
Bryan Stevenson
"I oppose the death penalty not for what it does to the executed, but for what it does to the survivors."
Ramon Scruggs

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