Richard LaGravenese Quotes

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.'

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

When a mad man is executed, it is a miserable spectacle, both against law, and of extreme inhumanity and cruelty, and can be no example to others.

The death penalty saves lives.

The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?

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

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

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

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

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 no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

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.

The death penalty experiment has failed …. I will no longer tinker with the machinery of death.

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.

Having fully expressed our conviction that the punishment of death is one which should sometimes be inflicted, we may add that we would have it resorted to as unfrequently as possible.

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

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

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

I'm always theoretically opposed to capital punishment as a matter of policy; like, I don't believe a state should put its citizens to death.

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.

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

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.