FAMOUS QUOTES ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The death penalty is a warning, just like a lighthouse throwing beams out to sea.” – Clint Eastwood

“I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.” – Nelson Mandela

“If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but governments as well.” – Sister Helen Prejean

“I cannot invent a punishment that could satisfy me without being in some way barbarous.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.” – Henry Ford

“The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, do we deserve to kill?” – Bryan Stevenson

“The death penalty is a denial of the most basic human rights; it violates one of the fundamental principles under widely accepted human rights law.” – Desmond Tutu

“The death penalty is a symptom of a culture of violence, not a solution to it.” – Amnesty International

“The state is not God. It has no right to take away someone’s life.” – Pope Francis

“No one ever choked to death swallowing his pride.” – George Carlin

“The existence of the death penalty in any society raises one fundamental question: have we become so debased and so lacking in moral courage that we can no longer recognize the need for a less violent approach to resolving conflicts?” – Maya Angelou

“I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death.” – Albert Camus

“Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.” – Jesse Ventura

“I believe that the death penalty makes us all murderers; it violates the sanctity of human life and contributes to a cycle of violence and retribution.” – John Grisham FAMILY AND NATURE QUOTES

“The death penalty is not justice. It is revenge.” – Eve Ensler

“The death penalty is a warning, just like a cigarette’s warning.” – Jack Kevorkian

“The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, do we deserve to kill?” – Bryan Stevenson

“We’re killing people we could be saving, as demonstrated by the hundreds that have been released from death row after DNA tests proved their innocence.” – Richard Atkinson

“The death penalty is state-sanctioned violence. It is morally wrong and perpetuates a cycle of violence and vengeance.” – Shami Chakrabarti

“To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.” – Desmond Tutu

“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology.” – J. Edgar Hoover

“An execution is not simply the killing of a human being, it is the total destruction of something unique, the ending of the life of someone who will never be replaced.” – Svetlana Alexievich

“Death row itself is a miserable existence, not to mention the emotional strain of knowing that you will be systematically exterminated.” – Darrell Rice

“The death penalty is a symptom of a culture of violence, not a solution to it.” – Amnesty International

“Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.” – Orrin Hatch

“It is better to release ten guilty men than to execute one innocent man.” – Voltaire