Blase J. Cupich Quotes

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?

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.

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

I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.

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.

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

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

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 am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

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

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: (1) Irreversibility in the event of an error in justice; (2) detrimental moral influence on those who have to carry out the procedure.

The death penalty saves lives.

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.

Malcolm is worthy of death.

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

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 will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is.

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.

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