Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

One less of such monsters in existence is one less who has slaughtered or would slaughter hundreds of victims

As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.

This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder." "I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him." "I meant it the other way." "Oh.

I wasn't angry the night I shot him.

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

I don't believe in murder.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.

The crime of homicide, be it either accidental or voluntary, does not permit of suffering the same penalty, because on one case the full penalty must be exacted and in the other there should have been mercy.

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

We got victims out there that are getting shot four and five times, point blank range. That's not self-defense. You're not going to tell me that's self-defense.

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right.

Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.

The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most vile murder does not, in my view, release the state from constitutional restraint on the destruction of human dignity.

It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily confined.

I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign, are sort of like going to sleep, and they're not. They're brutal things.

Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.