Capital Punishment Quotes

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

If the Khalifah implements even one law outside of the divine law, then he will be removed. The courts will face him and he will face capital punishment and he will be removed.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.