Abbas-Ali Alizadeh Quotes

He needs to be punished because the law hasn't punished him. He's never done any hard time.

Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards.

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

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

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

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

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

Good laws are the offspring of bad actions.

The message has to be sent that if you commit a crime there has to be punishment.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Within the realm of the law, we have to be as severe as we can. We will not simply give capital punishment to all criminals, but those who deserve it will get it.

The aim of the law is not to punish sins, but is to prevent certain external results.

As to the thief, male or female cut off his or her hands.

There are eight kinds of punishment: fine, fetters, flogging, retaliation in kind, civil disgrace, banishment, slavery, death

I'd rather lock somebody up and throw away the key and put them in hard labor, the ultimate penalty that the law will allow, but I'm opposed to the death penalty

They could hang people for what's in there.

The other bands are just as bad, but we go to jail more.

Every state and the federal government have laws that protect people from acts of violence, and those laws should be enforced. What I want to see in America is that if you hurt a human being and you bring pain in their life, that's all we need to know. If you did it illegally, you should be prosecuted.

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.