George W. Bush Quotes

The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.

I believe in the death penalty.

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.

Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating circumstances.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

While I live, every criminal must die.

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it.

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.

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

And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is accused by God; you shall not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.

Proposals to abolish the death penalty demnstrate an effeminacy in the general mind of the country.

L. Ram Saran Das was sentenced to death in 1915, and the sentence was later commuted to life transportation. Today myself, sitting in the condemned cell, I can let the readers know as authoritatively that the life-imprisonment is comparatively a far harder lot than that of death.

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital punishment - in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes - outweighs the risk of error.

We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a bit different throughout the country, so I look forward to Judge Gorsuch being on the court, Justice Gorsuch being on the court, and bringing some clarification to those issues.

When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were stronger than they turned out to be.

A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.

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

If you're stealing a television, that should not be the death penalty.

But I really think it's a very unfortunate part of our judicial system and I would feel much, much better if more states would really consider whether they think the benefits outweigh the very serious potential injustice, because in these cases the emotions are very, very high on both sides and to have stakes as high as you do in these cases, there is a special potential for error. We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.

You will be excellently executed.

Those of us who spent time in the agricultural sector and in the heartland, we understand how unfair the death penalty is.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.