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.
Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn't. Only it costs a whole lot more.
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.
I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment.
Many of us do not believe in capital punishment, because thus society takes from a man what society cannot give.
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
