Capital Offense Quotes

Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

Henceforth, there shall be no more execution by beheading with an axe.

I don't think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don't think that's right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people's lives.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.

In England, the ultimate execution method for men who committed high treason was hanging, drawing, and quartering. It was considered indecent at the time to mutilate a woman’s body in this way, so female traitors were burnt at the stake.

We have a legal system, and we have a penal code. We have the death penalty in Saudi Arabia, and people should respect this.

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

Major General David Hunter is a felon to be executed if captured.

Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps affirm this fact.

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.'

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

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

I found that the death penalty  -  and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person  -  but what I think drew me to the death penalty is because it raises some very deep, fundamental questions like: Is anybody beyond redemption?

You will be excellently executed.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.

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

I've never struggled with that at all....in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.