Deterrence Effect Quotes

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

Fines have to be incentives to enforce the law. We cannot allow them to become just another cost of doing business

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

A nuclear program has arguably worked as a deterrent for North Korea and other states - would Moammar Gadhafi have been deposed and summarily killed if Libya had had nuclear weapons? Iranians might not think so.

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

The death penalty saves lives.

The death penalty does absolutely nothing to deter crime.

If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix arrested three people. As soon as he arrested those three people, everybody else immediate left.

If people ignore the rules already, new regulations are not likely to deter them.