Death-penalty Quotes

The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It work...

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people sho...

In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no...

Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold t...

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric...

I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it i...

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing...

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance ...

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has k...