Anti-Death Penalty Quotes

I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.

Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice, indigenous justice, and justice for black and brown people all over the world, and in the United States has been helping to lead the charge against the death penalty here, and is an extremely eloquent and empowering person. And one of the great things about running with him is that we speak to all of America.

I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest Proposal pamphlet incorporated into Naked Lunch; these pamphlets have marked Naked Lunch as an obscene book.

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.

You have to reject a machoism. You have to identify with the wimps. You know, there is a certain perception of wimpishness about being against the death penalty. I mean, some of my colleagues say to me, "Fry these vermin, John. What's the problem, man?

[Sen. John] Kerry is also a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the resolution approving the start of ground operations against Saddam Hussein in 1991 - just what you would expect from Ted Kennedy's partner and Michael Dukakis's running mate.

I do not criticize anyone’s position on the death penalty as I myself have held every different position at one point of my career or another.

When I got lucky enough to be successful as an actor, and I got involved in the anti-war stuff and gay rights movement, there was always this thing eating at me about the death penalty, because that was, to me, the bottom line. That was the anti-life - by definition - position, and I didn't understand why we did it.

Labor has a universal position of opposition to the death penalty both at home and abroad... It is not possible in our view to be selective in the application of this policy.

I don't get any damn pleasure out of the death penalty and I never have .... If they abolished it tomorrow, I'd go out and get drunk in celebration.