Henry Ford Quotes

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

The state is not the agent of mercy or charity, but is the instrument of God's vengeance against those who disturb the public peace through theft, violence, or negligence. To the state belongs the power of the sword, which consists of the right to execute those who are worthy of death, to inflict corporal punishment, and to require restitution to the victims of theft and bodily injury.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murders.

People believe in capital punishment to the extent that it seems to be fair, but if fairness is in question, they prefer life imprisonment…. The death penalty as a way of deterrence is just not turning out to be true.

The grieving are surely owed our empathy, but capital punishment can neither right a wrong nor prevent another from happening.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

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

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Capital punishment is vindictive – it is vengeful.

Crime is the number one problem in Russia.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Trying to solve the crime problem by building more prison cells is like trying to solve the problem of AIDS by building more hospitals.

The punishment of the wrongdoer is not designed as atonement for a crime; it is a solace to the individual who has suffered a private wrong.

I believe that capital punishment serves no useful purpose and is a form of revenge.

As to the thief, male or female cut off his or her hands.

I'd rather lock somebody up and throw away the key and put them in hard labor, the ultimate penalty that the law will allow, but I'm opposed to the death penalty

Every punishment is based, not on logic or the feeling of justice, but on the desire to wish evil on those who have done evil to you or to another person…. Everything about our present system of punishments and about all criminal law will be thought of by future generations in the same way that we think of cannibalism or human sacrifice to the pagan gods. “How did they not see the uselessness and cruelty of those things which they did?” our descendants will say about us.

As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of a child or the murder of a police officer. The events of September 11 convinced me that terrorists also deserve the ultimate punishment.