#capital punishment

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

— Orrin Hatch

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I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. ↗

— Lionel Jospin

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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

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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. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

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

— Kate Millett

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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

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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. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

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

— Henry Ford

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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

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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

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