Grace Poe Quotes

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

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

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.

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?

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.

I believe life imprisonment is far worse than the death penalty.

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.

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

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

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

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

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

When a mad man is executed, it is a miserable spectacle, both against law, and of extreme inhumanity and cruelty, and can be no example to others.

Criminals are punished, that others may be deterred.

If we are trying to establish a culture of life, it’s difficult to have the state sponsoring executions.

The death penalty saves lives.

Is there not blood enough upon your penal code?

Those who favor capital punishment do so in the name of justice. Can there be any argument against insisting that it be imposed justly—and not on the wrong people.

I will make Mississippi the capital of capital punishment.