Liam Neeson Quotes

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

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

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: (1) Irreversibility in the event of an error in justice; (2) detrimental moral influence on those who have to carry out the procedure.

I'm pro-death. I believe in the death penalty. Let's get on with it.

Those who favor capital punishment do so in the name of justice. Can there be any argument against insisting that it be imposed justly—and not on the wrong people.

If I had had the slightest doubt, I certainly would not have imposed the death penalty.

Malcolm is worthy of death.

If we as a society are willing to take human life, then we should be willing to watch it being taken.

The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from life, appears as a natural, almost unnoticed relief, like some of the challenging illnesses wiped out by drug and vaccines.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act.

Anyone who believes in capital punishment should be shot

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the level of the murderer, and treating him as he treated others? The forfeiture of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict it on another, even when backed by legal process.