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Capital Punishment Quotes

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder? Picture Quote #1

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment Picture Quote #1

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder Picture Quote #1

Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world Picture Quote #1

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer’s life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person’s family Picture Quote #1

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life Picture Quote #1

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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master Picture Quote #1

I have also seen it stated that capital punishment is murder in it's worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified Picture Quote #1

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society Picture Quote #1

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty Picture Quote #1

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What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder? (Capital Punishment Quotes) We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment (Capital Punishment Quotes) But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder (Capital Punishment Quotes) Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world (Capital Punishment Quotes) If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow (Capital Punishment Quotes) 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 (Capital Punishment Quotes) 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 (Capital Punishment Quotes) Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give (Capital Punishment Quotes) 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 (Capital Punishment Quotes) 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 (Capital Punishment Quotes) Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer’s life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person’s family (Capital Punishment Quotes) Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life (Capital Punishment Quotes) Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master (Capital Punishment Quotes) I have also seen it stated that capital punishment is murder in it's worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified (Capital Punishment Quotes) Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society (Capital Punishment Quotes) Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty (Capital Punishment Quotes)

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