Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give. Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life. Orrin Hatch
Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years? Anton Chekhov
Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn’t. Only it costs a whole lot more. Anna Quindlen
The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. James Madison