Quotes About Justice

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

The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

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.

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

If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?

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.

I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.

[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

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

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

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

Mercy often inflicts death.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

They never fail who die in a great cause.