Quotes About Death penalty

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

People who change their religion should face the death penalty.

They're going to get the death penalty. They'll be strung up and made to be laughed at out in the streets and made examples of!

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

Gunther, like most white people, thought the idea of an innocent man on death row was absurd.

McClure turned, pointed an angry finger at Hugh, and said, "This man is a cold-blooded killer who deserves the death penalty." All twelve glared at the defendant. The courtroom was still, silent. Though the first witness had yet to be called, the trial was over. Hugh absorbed the words without flinching. He was determined to look

Easy issues are at the heart of what sociologist James Davison Hunter (119911) forecast as the emerging polarization of American politics. In Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, which is often cited as the impetus for Pat Buchanan's fiery speech at the 1199z Republican National Convention and the dawn of polarized politics, he suggests that the emergence of new social issues, such as abortion, the death penalty, and gay rights, make polarization inevitable.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

We face today an especially sinister emergence, not just more police violence, mass incarceration, and a death penalty, but the rise of the U.S. "carceral" or "penal state." Here

Police violence, mass incarceration and the death penalty—the structural triad of the U.S. penal state I term "Lockdown America"—are not just challenges for Christians today, they demand re-thinking and re-creating what Christianity is. The challenges demand not simply sensitizing and mobilizing Christians, but more importantly re-envisioning and redefining just what constitutes "Jesus-followers" today.

Lockdown America, as that triadic structure of police violence, mass incarceration and the death penalty, is one key assemblage of governing forces, of the state's "jaws." Theorists

U.S. death rows, still displaying over 3,000 persons, are similarly sites of torture. After a person is sentenced to death, he or she is held in situations approximating solitary confinement, sometimes for decades, under prolonged and anguishing anticipation of the state's calculation of an execution date. Judges

Unlike all earlier Roman reformers, Gaius sponsored not just a single initiative but a dozen or so. He was the first politician in the city, leaving aside the mythical founding fathers, to have an extensive and coherent programme, with measures that covered such things as the right of appeal against the death penalty, the outlawing of bribery and a much more ambitious scheme of land distribution than Tiberius had ever proposed.

If Caesar really did advocate life imprisonment in 63 BCE, then it was probably the first time in Western history that this was mooted as an alternative to the death penalty, without success.

Fines, exile and death made up the usual repertoire of Roman punishment. If Caesar really did advocate life imprisonment in 63 BCE, then it was probably the first time in Western history that this was mooted as an alternative to the death penalty, without success.

Woodhull called for a one-term presidency, monetary and tax reform, an eight-hour workday, welfare for the poor, national education for children, and a repeal of the death penalty. The platform also included a red flag: "All laws shall be repealed which are made use of by Government to interfere with the rights of adult individuals to pursue happiness as they may choose.

In a perfect penal code, vulgarity would be punished with the death penalty.

In particular, if Christians must reject the death penalty, it is not from an idolatrous sacralization of biological life, but in order to leave a person the opportunity of repentance. Remember this, and you will no longer judge: Judas was an apostle, and the thief crucified at Christ's right hand was a murderer. What a transformation in an instant! John Climacus The Ladder of Divine Ascent,

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.

If a man lies with his fatherís wife, he has uncovered his fatherís nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.