Quotes About Punishment

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.

What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!

And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

Mercy often inflicts death.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated.

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.