E. W. Howe Quotes

I am against the death penalty.

Malcolm is worthy of death.

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

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.

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.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

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

I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

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

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.

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 was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

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

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.