If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny BruceTags: christianity execution catholicism jesus-christ anti-christian crucifixion anti-catholic death-penalty electric-chairs rosaries
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: government death-penalty
[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there are basic human rights I believe that every human being has. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations says it for me. And it says there are two basic rights that can't be negotiated that government doesn't give for good behavior and doesn't take away for bad behavior. And it's the right not to be tortured and not to be killed. Because the flip side of this is that then when you say OK we're gonna turn over -- they truly have done heinous things, so now we will turn over to the government now the right to take their life. It involves other people in doing essentially the same kind of act."
(PBS Frontline: Angel on Death Row)
Tags: law government torture human-rights death-penalty capital-punishment right-to-life an-eye-for-an-eye criminal-justice criminal-justice-system death-row executions inalienable-rights right-to-live
I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system.
Neil GaimanTags: justice legal-system death-penalty reasonable-doubt criminal-law justice-system
A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct,
Mark L. ShurtleffTags: murder god death religion mercy idiocy death-penalty victims executions psychopathy attorney-generals firing-squads press-conferences ronnie-lee-gardner utah utah-department-of-corrections
He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.
John GrishamTags: death-penalty
Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.
John GrishamTags: death-penalty
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor HugoTags: punishment death-penalty vengeance victor-hugo capital-punishment the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man
It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.
Frederick ForsythTags: first-sentence first-lines execution death-penalty first-line frederick-forsyth
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: gandalf lord-of-the-rings j-r-r-tolkien death-penalty capital-punishment
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