Murder Penalty Quotes

I will never understand how a mother can kill her own baby and not get away with it.

There is certainly nothing anomalous in punishing the crime of murder differently in different jurisdictions.

I don't believe in a lot of things from the Bronze Age, but an eye for an eye does make a sort of symmetrical sense to me. I really believe that if somebody takes a life, that [death penalty] is what they should get. I also think it's a lot more humane than keeping people in a cage for the rest of their life.

Those who murdered whites were ... more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks.

She who purposely destroys the fetus, shall suffer the punishment of murder… Those who give drugs for procuring abortion, and those who receive poisons to kill the foetus, are subjected to the same penalty as murder

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.

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.