Quotes by Death Penalty Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. Alan Parker death-penalty penalties reason Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. Albert Camus death-penalty punishment murder The death penalty is barbaric. And I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we're not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it. Alex Kozinski cruelty death-penalty thinking I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. Andrei Sakharov death-penalty savages foundation I am against the death penalty. Andrew Cuomo against-death-penalty death-penalty penalties Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. Angela Davis death-penalty slavery america It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty. Anthony Kennedy death-penalty opinion weight I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who was murdered by the state, though innocent. Antoinette Bosco death-penalty risk errors For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it. Arthur Schopenhauer death-penalty hell world The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process. Where the death penalty persists, conditions for those awaiting execution are often horrifying, leading to aggravated suffering. Ban Ki-moon execution death-penalty suffering In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God. Bernice King death-penalty choices sides The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. Bianca Jagger death-penalty penalties united-states I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again. Bill McCollum death-penalty country thinking The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. Bob Butterworth death-penalty penalties favors We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? Brigitte Bardot death-penalty should animal The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid. Bryan Stevenson death-penalty penalties care Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross! Charles Spurgeon death-penalty wonder jesus Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there. Clive Stafford Smith sick-world death-penalty calm Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. Coretta Scott King human-life death-penalty justice An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation. Coretta Scott King death-penalty deeds evil 12345678»