Catherine Crier Quotes

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

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

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

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

Capital punishment may not be much of a deterrent against murder, but the sight of a few corpses swinging from a scaffold might work with drug dealers.

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.

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

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

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.

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

He was condemned to lose his eyes and genitals, a merciful punishment, for he deserved to be hanged

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.

I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.

As a society are we going to murder people to show that murder is wrong

The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

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

I should still be in jail.

One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.