Ted Nugent Quotes

It's time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground, send them all to their maker and he'll settle them down.

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

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.

The purpose of punishment is fulfilled, crime is repressed by penalties of just, not tormenting, severity, its repetition is prevented, and hope is given for the reformation of the criminal.

I'd rather lock somebody up and throw away the key and put them in hard labor, the ultimate penalty that the law will allow, but I'm opposed to the death penalty

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists.

There is one stark fact facing us: three quarters of all crime that results in a caution or sentence happens because of reoffending. We must be fearless in dealing with this.

I prefer a prison full of criminals than a graveyard full of innocent people.

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.

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.

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

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

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

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

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

People want to kill people because they don't want them out on the street again.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

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.

Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment.

Why should not insolvent Thieves be rather punished with slavery then death? so as being slaves they may be forced to as much labour, and as cheap fare, as nature will endure, and thereby become as two men added to the Commonwealth, and not as one taken away from it;

The argument most often cited in support of capital punishment is that the threat of executions deters capital crimes more effectively than imprisonment. This claim is plausible, but the facts do not support it. The death penalty fails as a deterrent