Zebulan Bartels Quotes

I will make Mississippi the capital of capital punishment.

I am a proponent of capital punishment. I am not a proponent of capital torture.

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

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Why does the new crime bill have so many new ways of killing people?

I don't get any damn pleasure out of the death penalty and I never have .... If they abolished it tomorrow, I'd go out and get drunk in celebration.

The highest and ultimate political power is capital punishment.

If, as is contended by the advocates of “deterrence,” cruelty in punishment is justified by the “deterrent” effect which these persons credit it with, then surely the rack, the wheel, and the thumbscrew are the last word of penal wisdom. If hanging and the plank-bed are “deterrent” and hence justifiable, then … the stake and the rack are more “deterrent” and hence more justifiable.

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.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

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.

We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?

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

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 was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

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

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

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.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I am against the death penalty.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

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?

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.