Pam Bondi Quotes

Does the Constitution permit the execution of an innocent person?

They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases.

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.'

Most high courts in other nations do not have discretion, such as we enjoy, in selecting the cases that the high court reviews. Our court is virtually alone in the amount of discretion it has.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

I am still doing my due diligence. A vote on a Supreme Court nominee is a lifetime appointment and when the court decides, it is the law of the land.

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?

The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most liberal and illumined of the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.

I was covering the Supreme Court when it decided Gideon v. Wainright, and the case has always had special meaning for me.

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

The Supreme Court is our ultimate check and balance.

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

People expect that the law will be what the Supreme Court told them what the law was going to be.

The Supreme Court only hears the cases that it wants to hear.

We are talking about a pendulum of decency when it comes to societal standards…At one point the guillotine was fine. At one point the firing squad was fine. Our Supreme court is trying to make it more palatable by saying “death by lethal injection”

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 think most people have a general idea of the Constitution, and somewhat of the Bill of Rights.

Short of the passage of a Constitutional Amendment protecting marriage as between one man and one woman, the U.S. Supreme Court has the final say.

Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

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.