Blase J. Cupich Quotes

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.

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

If we as a society are willing to take human life, then we should be willing to watch it being taken.

But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.

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

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.

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

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

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

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

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

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

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

If we are trying to establish a culture of life, it’s difficult to have the state sponsoring executions.

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murders.

The death penalty saves lives.

The death penalty as been a gross failure. Beyond its horror and incivility, it has neither protected the innocent nor deterred the wicked. The recurrent spectacle of publicly sanctioned killing has cheapened human life and dignity without the grace which comes from justice meted out swiftly, evenly, humanely.

The death penalty will seem to the next generation, as it seems to many even now, an anachronism too discordant to be suffered, mocking with grim reproach all our clamorous professions of the sanctity of life.

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.

The death penalty serves social justice.

The highest and ultimate political power is capital punishment.

In executing prisoners we merely add to the number of untimely dead without diminishing the number of murders committed.