Roseanne Barr Quotes

It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

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.

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

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

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

I believe in the death penalty.

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: (1) Irreversibility in the event of an error in justice; (2) detrimental moral influence on those who have to carry out the procedure.

The death penalty will seem to the next generation, as it seems to many even now, an anachronism too discordant to be suffered, mocking with grim reproach all our clamorous professions of the sanctity of life.

I'm pro-death. I believe in the death penalty. Let's get on with it.

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

Malcolm is worthy of death.

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

The system of death-penalty justice is compromised and inequitable.

What's wrong with the death penalty is that it satisfies this penchant we have for vengeance.

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

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

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.'

I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.