Gary Hart Quotes

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.

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.

The liberation of those who commit murder and terrorism is unacceptable.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

I believe in the death penalty.

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.

Capital punishment may not be much of a deterrent against murder, but the sight of a few corpses swinging from a scaffold might work with drug dealers.

Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it is therefore an emanation of virtue.

Justice has been done.

I oppose the death penalty other than in cases of real international and domestic terrorism.

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

It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.

All terrorists must face the full force of the law.

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

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

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

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America.

Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists.

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

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

We need to keep examining evilness. For instance, I'm totally against the fact that Osama bin Laden was shot. I think that he should have been put on trial and exposed as that human being he was. I think he should've been standing mentally naked in front of the rest of us and stand to justice for what he did.

I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.