Ronald Reagan Quotes

I believe in the death penalty.

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 support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

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

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

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.'

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.

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.

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

While I live, every criminal must die.

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

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

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

The death penalty serves social justice.

I will make Mississippi the capital of capital punishment.

Jesus was the victim of capital punishment.