Top 30 Capital Punishment Quotes

In this post, you will find great Capital Punishment Quotes from famous people, such as Kate Millett, Raj Thackeray, Benjamin Tucker, Bill Maher, Charlize Theron. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.

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

Kate Millett

The last issue I remember where a president was involved was in the capital punishment of 1993 blasts convict Yaqub Memon. Otherwise, in your life, in my life, how does a president make a difference? Has a president ever stated his point of view on anything?

Raj Thackeray

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

Benjamin Tucker

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Bill Maher

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question – I struggle with it morally.

Charlize Theron

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Marilyn vos Savant

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.

Aldrich Ames

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, – at least in theory.

Benjamin Tucker

There’s only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.

Reza Aslan

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

Pete Buttigieg

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.’

Jeff Lindsay

I wanted to say I don’t agree with capital punishment.

Guy Sebastian

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

Richard Attenborough

I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.

Werner Herzog

Capital punishment is neither cruel nor unusual.

Michael J. Knowles

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

Benjamin Tucker

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.

Michael Finkel

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.

Jeff Lindsay

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.

Antonin Scalia

Capital punishment is an appropriate punishment for rape.

Kirron Kher

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

James Madison

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won‘t be put to death.

Paul Simon

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

Laurence Housman

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

Geoffrey Fisher

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

Orrin Hatch

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn’t go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated.

Caryl Chessman

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

Ida B. Wells

My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that.

Nick Harkaway

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Henry Ford