Tom Price Quotes

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

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!

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

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

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

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

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

The death penalty serves social justice.

Countries that give up this penalty award an unimaginable advantage to the criminal over his victim.

Labor has a universal position of opposition to the death penalty both at home and abroad... It is not possible in our view to be selective in the application of this policy.

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

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.

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

I am against the death penalty.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

The death penalty saves lives.

I am a proponent of capital punishment. I am not a proponent of capital torture.

Is it right for us, as a society, to do a thing – hang a man – which none of us individually would be prepared to do or even witness? The answer is 'no, not in a civilized society

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.

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

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.

But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.