Dianne Feinstein Quotes

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

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.'

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

I am against the death penalty.

I believe in the death penalty.

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.

I will make Mississippi the capital of capital punishment.

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

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

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

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

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

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'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

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

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.

But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.

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

The death penalty saves lives.

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

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.

Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

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