Death Penalty

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.