Belgium Quotes

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

The death penalty is abolished – even at the front!

Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.

I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death] is so plainly doomed to failure that is - and the death penalty - must be abandoned altogether. I may not live to see that day, but I have faith that eventually it will arrive.

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

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty.

I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.

I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for a while, and there is nothing I can do about it. Maybe, in time- after how many executions? - people will come to realize the futility of randomly selecting a few people to die each year.

I'm excited we can be part of making the death penalty history.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.

I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we can ever get that straightened out, it will help. But, of course, the real answer to it is to do away with the death penalty.

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.

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.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.

The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.