1.
I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?
Mort Sahl
2.
I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.
Richard Attenborough
3.
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
Maimonides
4.
Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?
Woody Allen
5.
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
Brendan Behan
7.
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.
Anjem Choudary
8.
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.
Anton Chekhov
9.
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
Lionel Jospin
10.
That led me to say that when push comes to shove, I'm against capital punishment.
Scott Turow
11.
We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
Henry David Thoreau