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

~ Martin O'malley

Martin O'malley Family Death Penalty

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

~ Bobby Scott

Bobby Scott Death Penalty Crime

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.

~ Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia Future Chair Death Penalty

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

~ Tim Kaine

Tim Kaine Life Death Penalty Think

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

~ Asa Hutchinson

Asa Hutchinson Death Penalty Think

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.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Law Death Penalty True

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

~ Dianne Feinstein

Dianne Feinstein Support Death Penalty Yes

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

~ N. T. Wright

N. T. Wright Abortion Death Penalty You

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

~ Jack Kevorkian

Jack Kevorkian Death Penalty Admit Will

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.

~ Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat Law Death Penalty Bank

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

~ Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger Death Penalty Lottery

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

~ Ron White

Ron White Trying Death Penalty Lane

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

~ Eric Holder

Eric Holder Law I Am Death Penalty

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

~ Dennis Miller

Dennis Miller Life Death Penalty 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.

~ Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin Time Death Penalty Protest

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

~ Tony Randall

Tony Randall Death Penalty Country