I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.
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.
Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life.
In the U. S. S. R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U. S. S. R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.
I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.
As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.
This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.
The death sentence is a barbaric act.
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.
I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.
Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated
First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.
The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death penalty implies that one is exposed to committing an irreparable injustice; from which it follows that it is unjust to establish it. This reasoning appears to us to have the force of a demonstration.
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 statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.