Asa Hutchinson Quotes

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.

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 believe in the death penalty.

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'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I am against the death penalty.

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

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

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

Malcolm is worthy of death.

The death penalty serves social justice.

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

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

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.

Having fully expressed our conviction that the punishment of death is one which should sometimes be inflicted, we may add that we would have it resorted to as unfrequently as possible.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

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.

But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

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.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?