When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.
The death sentence is a barbaric act.
The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.
Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?
The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone to get the death penalty.
Eliminating the death penalty. . . will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.
In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
The death sentence is a barbaric act. . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call.
I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.
I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it. . .
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.
Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated
Evidence of innocence is irrelevant!
Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?