Ted Cruz Quotes

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

If we as a society are willing to take human life, then we should be willing to watch it being taken.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

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.

But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murders.

The death penalty saves lives.

The Court had better be right in its capital punishment cases and perhaps it not always is.

I will make Mississippi the capital of capital punishment.

If you’re going to have the death penalty, you had better be sure that you have the right man.

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The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.

I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

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.'