Lee Harvey Oswald Quotes

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

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

Malcolm is worthy of death.

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.

Donald Beardslee is set for execution this week in California. His crimes were about twenty years ago, but it will be the first execution in California in quite some time.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

A murder is not a martyr. He or she is just a murderer.

If I had had the slightest doubt, I certainly would not have imposed the death penalty.

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

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.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

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

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

I believe in the death penalty.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

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

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. Time will pass and seasons will come and go. Spring with its waving green grass and heaps of sweet-smelling flowers on every hill and in every dale. Then sultry Summer, with her shimmering heat-waves on the baked horizon. And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growing brown and golden under a sinking sun. And finally Winter, with its biting, whining wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. But you won't be here to see any of 'em; not by a damn sight, because it's the order of this court that you be took to the nearest tree and hanged by the neck till you're dead, dead, dead, you olive-colored son of a billy goat.

If crimes have been committed it is necessary to investigate. They say that the number of victims have been exaggerated, but one case is enough. Cain slew Abel only once. Christ only once was crucified.

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.

If you’re going to have the death penalty, you had better be sure that you have the right man.