Just Punishment Quotes

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

It is a most just punishment, that man should lose that freedom, which man could not use, yet had power to keep, if he would; and that he who had knowledge to do what was right, and did not should be deprived of the knowledge of what was right; and that he who would not do righteously, when he had the power, should lose the power to do it, when he had the will.

Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished; but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.