Capital Punishment Quotes

“The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen, whose destruction it judges necessary, or useful to the general good.”

“The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.”

“The fatal constitutional infirmity in the punishment of death is that it treats 'members of the human race as nonhumans, as objects to be toyed with and discarded.'”

“Capital punishment is the legalized murder of a human being by the state.”

“The gas chamber is a monument to man's inhumanity to man.”

“I'm a prosecutor first and foremost, and I'm not a big fan of the death penalty.”

“There is no way in the world that a state-sanctioned murder of an individual is anything that is civil.”

“The problem with the death penalty is that it is irreversible. If you make a mistake, you can't take it back.”

“I will not sign the death penalty.”

“A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is not a civilized society.”