Death Penalty Quotes - Page 16

• I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.

  Ann Coulter

  Gun, Support, Half

  "Ann Coulter on Controversial Comments About Religion". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. October 15, 2007.

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• I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.

  Michael Baden

  Mistake, Upset, Way

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• The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Errors, Long, Evil

  Thomas Aquinas (1975). “Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence”, p.266, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?

  Jay Leno

  Giving, Guy, Want

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• The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

  Assata Shakur

  Justice, United States, Racist

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• I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.

  Hilary Swank

  Years, Penalties, Glad

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• I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year.

  Troy King

  Years, Safe, Next Year

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• The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the litigation level. Also, DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 death-row inmates.

  John McLaughlin

  Government, Dna, Levels

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• I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost.

  Troy King

  Alabama, Lost, States

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• The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.

  Quentin Crisp

  Views, Accomplishment, Fit

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• You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.

  Bobby Slayton

  Crazy, America, People

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• I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Savages, Foundation, Moral

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• There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Fire, Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the same time there are some people that are just such a mental mess that, you know, they will never get out of their obsessions and they can keep them forever.

  Gaspar Noe

  People, Forever, Able

  Source: www.freepatentsonline.com

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• States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or summary executions. They can also kill by omission, when they fail to guarantee to their people access to the bare essentials for life.

  Pope Francis

  War, Omission, People

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• I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

  John Grisham

  Pages Turning, Issues, Goal

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• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  N. T. Wright

  Pro Life, Abortion, Penalties

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• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Father, Practice

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• In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here

  Troy King

  Australia, Justice, Alabama

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• It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.

  Troy King

  Justice, Pay, Faces

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• We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

  Brigitte Bardot

  Animal, Should, Penalties

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• As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Christian, Doctors, Individual

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