Rick Santorum Quotes

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it.

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.

I believe in the death penalty.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

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

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

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.'

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.

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

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.

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

You will be excellently executed.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

While I live, every criminal must die.

It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief executioners.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.