The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.
I don't have any personal upset at the death penalty as an abstraction, What I do realize is how many mistakes can be made with the way things are being done now.
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.
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.
Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.
Germans argue with the Americans about many things, from the death penalty to the relationship between security and freedom. We have to be honest about these differences. And yet, whenever we quarrel with the Americans, it amounts to controversies over different interpretations of values we share. You can't say that about Russia. Vladimir Putin fundamentally questions Western values.
The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.
Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
If you are deemed insane, then all actions that would oherwise prove you are not do, in actuality, fall into the framework of an insane person’s actions. Your sound protests constitute denial. Your valid fears are deemed paranoia. Your survival instincts are labeled defense mechanisms. It’s a no-win situation. It’s a death penalty really.
As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York. . . I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.
I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.
Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.
We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.
I found that the death penalty - and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person - but what I think drew me to the death penalty is because it raises some very deep, fundamental questions like: Is anybody beyond redemption?
It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs?
When you look at the Bible, and I read the Bible very seriously, for a lot of my life, I believed the Bible ordained the death penalty, and the Bible seemed to be very clear about that. But the more I look, the more troubled I became because it's not that simple. In the Bible, there's some 30 death-worth crimes, like working on the Sabbath, or disrespecting your parents. Are we that fundamental that we should bring back that death penalty?