Bhagat Singh Quotes

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

The death penalty scares the hell out of me. We now see about one out of eight errors in these convictions.

In death row every rule in society is flipped.

There's no doubt I expect to die in prison.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

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

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

Murder cases in which the victim was white were almost twice as likely to result in the death penalty as cases in which the victim was black, and blacks who killed whites were two and a half times more likely to be sentenced to death than whites who killed whites.

Where the death penalty is involved, our criminal justice system essentially reserves the death penalty for murderers (regardless of their race) who kill white victims.

I don’t think its right to have a criminal justice system that puts innocent people to death.

The system of death-penalty justice is compromised and inequitable.

I am convinced that, because the criminal justice system is run by humans, it is naturally subject to human error. There is no rational basis to believe that this same type of human error will not infect capital murder trials.

My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.

I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

So the chances of you being sentenced to Death Row in America is roughly the same as you winning the lottery.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.

I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year.

Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.