Capital Punishment Quotes - Page 6

• Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Power, Punishment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Punishment, Support

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• Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Steps, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.252, Graphic Arts Books

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• I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

  Mort Sahl

  Punishment, People

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• Those subject to capital punishment are real human beings, with their own backgrounds and narratives. By contrast, those whose lives are or might be saved by virtue of capital punishment are mere 'statistical people.' They are both nameless and faceless, and their deaths are far less likely to be considered in moral deliberations.

  Cass Sunstein

  Real, Punishment, People

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• I think we have to have capital punishment, I think there has to be something to contain certain people. Those deterrents I think are necessary, especially in prison. You can threaten people for just so long, but they can flip you off and do what they want to; but not if they have to die. I hate it, though, the thought of the death penalty is terrible, but it's completely necessary.

  Merle Haggard

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't know if the question is whether you believe in capital punishment anymore. I think the greater question is its effectiveness and given the choices we face in California, should we have a merit-based discussion on its effectiveness and costs?

  Tani Cantil-Sakauye

  Believe, Thinking, Punishment

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• I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

  Nancy Reagan

  Punishment, Favors, Save A Life

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• I have now come to the conclusion (roughly) that capital punishment is defensible, if it can be shown to have a deterrent effect on murder. In that case, a few executions save not only some people from being murdered but also some people from becoming murders.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Punishment, People, Becoming

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as in the American South with a very high incidence of murder), this effect may very well go away if a decent welfare state was replaced for the existing social order.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Order, Punishment, Going Away

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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