Quotes about Capital punishment

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. — George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is — Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. — Nancy Reagan
Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country. — S.A. Tawks, Mule
I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it is banal and that bea — Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States wou — Steve Allen
[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible thi — Helen Prejean
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions — Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head m — S.A. Tawks, Mule
The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent. — Joel Norris, Serial Killers
It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alo — Victor Hugo
But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculate — Albert Camus
For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgrac — Oscar Wilde, The Ballad Of Reading Gaol
But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all—but the certain — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In th — Ernst Jünger, Eumeswil
Agnes: "I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth." Tóti: "Yes." Agnes: "And God said: — Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
In the wake of prevalent child rape and child abuse cases reported and unreported; Infliction of “Death Penalty” for chi — Henrietta Newton Martin B.Com LLB goldmedalist LLM goldmedalist MMS etc - Legal Consultant
The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to. — Anton Chekhov
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States. — Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the t — Victor Hugo, Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare