Death Penalty Quotes - Page 4

• 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

  America, Slavery, Penalties

  "We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty" by Diann Rust-Tierney, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2009.

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• The death penalty experiment has failed.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Human Rights, Penalties, Experiments

  "Bruce Edwin Callins v. James A. Collins 510 U.S. 1141". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 93-7054, www.law.cornell.edu. February 22, 1994.

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• People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Punishment, People, Trials

  "10 Ways to Blow a Death Penalty Case" by Marc Bookman, www.motherjones.com. April 22, 2014.

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• For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wise, Fellowship, Lord Of The Ring

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection of our courts. Through DNA testing, we don't always get it right, even with that.

  Rand Paul

  Dna, People, Support

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• Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which we conservatives know are rife with injustice.

  Richard Viguerie

  Running, Believe, Government

  "Conservatives are Rethinking the Death Penalty" by Kevin Price, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2017.

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• For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

  James Frey

  Believe, Years, Punishment

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• As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

  John R. Dunne

  New York, Regret, Favors

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• I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.

  Evelyn Lundberg Stratton

  Thinking, Penalties

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• From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.

  Jay Smith

  Cells, Mind, Moments

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• When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors.

  Ann Coulter

  Regret, College, Order

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.67, Crown Forum

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• When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.

  Jim Petro

  Mistake, Talking, One Mistake

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• I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Obscenity, Penalties

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• After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions.

  Ron Paul

  Mistake, Years, Government

  "Can Ron Paul and Conservative Evangelicals Save a Texas Death-Row Inmate?" by Stephanie Mencimer, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2014.

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• When people of color are killed in the inner city, when homeless people are killed, when the "nobodies" are killed, district attorneys do not seek to avenge their deaths. Black, Hispanic, or poor families who have a loved one murdered not only don't expect the district attorney's office to pursue the death penalty -which, of course, is both costly and time consuming- but are surprised when the case is prosecuted at all.

  Helen Prejean

  Color, Cities, Office

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• It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together.

  Christy Clark

  Book, Government, Together

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• The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness.

  Greg Zoeller

  Cost, Might, Fairness

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• I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Usa, Rights

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• At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

  Rod Dreher

  Men, Demand, Conservative

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• For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.

  Kathleen Parker

  Mean, Innocent Person, Justice

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• The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

  Paul Simon

  People, Judgement, Penalties

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• When we don't fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for all of us. Violence manifests itself. Mental health services in Texas are extremely poor. The answer is not to wait until they do something to get them help.

  David Atwood

  Children, Texas, Waiting

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• I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

  Oliver North

  Country, Thinking, Punishment

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• I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Lying, Believe, Punishment

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• When a juvenile offender 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

  Understanding, Humanity, Liberty

  Roper v. Simmons, 543 U.S. 551, March 1, 2005.

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