Death Punishment Quotes
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The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.
— Benjamin Franklin
but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.
— Clarice Lispector
Because this is Upper Canada, after all, and 'caning' sounds more English than 'having ass whipped to death with hickory stick.
— Allan Dare Pearce
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
— Maimonides
If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Are you saying that he deserves to die?' I asked, chilled. 'We all deserve to die,' he answered. — Storm Constantine
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.
— Seneca The Younger
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.
— Woody Allen
Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other. — John Webster
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
— George Bernard Shaw
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
— Marquis De Lafayette
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
— Seneca The Younger
Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.
— S.A. Tawks
The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.
— Anton Chekhov
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.
— Pope John Paul II
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.
— Christopher Hitchens
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy.
— Charles Spurgeon
Indeed, love is beautiful, yet at the same time, it is a cruel punishment, starker than death.
— Khaddam Ahmed Khan
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.
— Cesare Beccaria
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
— Paul Simon
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
— Baron De Montesquieu
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. Tolkien
Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.
— John Spenkelink
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.
— Albert Camus
The silence of death, of the cemetery, was no punishment, but a reward for a life well lived.
— Caitlin Doughty
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?
— Jean Said Makdisi
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.
— Nehemiah Adams