Quotes About Death Penalties

#1. There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

Mark Twain

#2. I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

Jesse Ventura

#3. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

Mark Twain

#4. The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.

Kinky Friedman

#5. I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

Gil Garcetti

#6. I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.

Hilary Swank

#7. The death penalty is inhumane ... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

Danny Glover

#8. If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.

Zakir Naik

#9. Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Gin Wigmore

#10. The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.

Bryan Stevenson

#11. I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective.

Evelyn Lundberg Stratton

#12. What's so hard about love? You simply grab the other's hand and refuse to let go.

Lee Min-ho

#13. 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.

Joseph Stalin

#14. My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.

Steve Earle

#15. Making laws with penalties of death, and consequently

John Locke

#16. 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.

Remy De Gourmont

#17. Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.

John Bunyan

#18. The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus.

Ken Calvert

#19. The fact that I'm the reason for that heated look in his eyes makes me feel even more desirable than when I imagine being perfect.

Colleen Hoover

#20. From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

Harry A. Blackmun

#21. I grew thinner and more ragged. I slept in rain or sun, on soft grass, moist earth, or sharp stones with an intensity of indifference that only grief can promote.

Patrick Rothfuss

#22. I think that people are still trying to understand each other and overcome prejudices. And people are still, most important, loving each other. And that is today as it was yesterday and will be for another 200 years.

Joe Wright

#23. Perfectionism is the mother of procrastination.

Michael Hyatt

#24. I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone ... I think, myself, that it is an obscenity ...

Desmond Tutu

#25. The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.

Cassandra Danz

#26. I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

Anna Nicole Smith

#27. Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty
What justifies the homicide when he dies?

Masta Killa

#28. The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.

Bob Butterworth

#29. The death penalty makes us all murderers.

Dean Smith

#30. I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.

Joss Whedon

#31. God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.

Marianne Williamson

#32. If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

Gary Player

#33. I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

Rick Santorum