Penalty Abolition Quotes

The death penalty is abolished – even at the front!

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute.

Countries that give up this penalty award an unimaginable advantage to the criminal over his victim.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain.

I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice  -  it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives  -  there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.

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

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

I am against the death penalty.

The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty.

Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.

The death penalty experiment has failed …. I will no longer tinker with the machinery of death.

No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty.