- Confirming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capital Punishment Quotes
Sitting with the death penalty debate.
These capital punishment quotes sit with the discomfort of the death penalty — support that softens once mistakes come to light, and the gap between opposing Death as a policy and wanting it used in a specific case.
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- Grieving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
- Punishment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
- Nov 07, 2020