Bill Paxton Quotes

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

I believe that capital punishment serves no useful purpose and is a form of revenge.

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.

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

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

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

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.

As governor, I came to believe that the death penalty would be a just punishment for certain, especially heinous crimes, such as the murder of a child or the murder of a police officer. The events of September 11 convinced me that terrorists also deserve the ultimate punishment.

For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.

The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.

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.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

I am against the death penalty.

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

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

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

Malcolm is worthy of death.

I feel morally and intellectually required to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

I want to see if she is serious about the death penalty.

As a society are we going to murder people to show that murder is wrong

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

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.