Kate Mulgrew Quotes

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 serves social justice.

In executing prisoners we merely add to the number of untimely dead without diminishing the number of murders committed.

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

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.

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

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.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

I am against the death penalty.

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

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?

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

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

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

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

When a mad man is executed, it is a miserable spectacle, both against law, and of extreme inhumanity and cruelty, and can be no example to others.

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 experiment has failed …. I will no longer tinker with the machinery of death.

Is there not blood enough upon your penal code?

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

Having fully expressed our conviction that the punishment of death is one which should sometimes be inflicted, we may add that we would have it resorted to as unfrequently as possible.