Capital Punishment Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• As a Catholic, you can have two views on capital punishment. You can think, let Caesar do what Caesar needs to do, and the law says you can impose capital punishment, so you impose it. You can [also] be a Catholic who says we can't kill, we can't kill babies and we can't kill adults. If you let a decision be driven by your personal views, then you are not doing what a judge needs to do, which is enforce the laws of the society that you are in. But you can control your own behavior, and that is the choice that the church and God gives us - what kind of people are we going to be.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Baby, Thinking, Views

  Source: progressive.org

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• Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment, slash benefits and put single mothers into hostels instead of giving them council flats. Finally, if we chucked out all the illegal immigrants and asylum seekers there would be enough jobs for everyone.

  Ken Bates

  Football, Mother, Jobs

  "Sneijder's Hannibal Lecter impression, AVB tells Cole to cut out the fags and Ken Bates' Daily Mail-esque rant". www.mirror.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

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• I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

  Ujjwal Nikam

  Punishment, Purpose, Messages

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• Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gnats, Criminals, Thieves

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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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• 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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• 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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