#penalty

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#evidence #hear #jail #jury #laughing

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ↗

— George Ryan

#because #capricious #death #death penalty #i

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#compromise #death #death penalty #despite #i

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#execution #first-line #first-lines #first-sentence #frederick-forsyth

Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message. ↗

— John Grisham

#best #books #death #death penalty #fraud

You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team. ↗

— Carl Hagelin

#box #chance #especially #every #five

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. ↗

— Hesiod

#evil #her #justice #kings #path

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

— Bianca Jagger

#being #death #death penalty #fatal #lottery

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

— Tim Kaine

#death #death penalty #i #i think #life

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. ↗