Punitive Measure Quotes

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

What's wrong with the death penalty is that it satisfies this penchant we have for vengeance.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

The punishment of the wrongdoer is not designed as atonement for a crime; it is a solace to the individual who has suffered a private wrong.

He that shall take an oath untruely, or bear false wittness in any cause or against any man whatsoever, shall be punished with death.

If any person has sung or composed against another person a SONG (carmen) such as was causing slander or insult.... he shall be clubbed to death.

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment because it is so final. The human life is ended and the executed person is deprived of the opportunity to change, to restore the harm done or compensate for it.

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Capital punishment is vindictive – it is vengeful.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

I do not want Greece to become the negative paradigm for the others - i.e. "make sure you follow exactly what we tell you, otherwise you will be like Greece."

You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if we can do that then we can begin to deal with this issue and send a signal this is not a problem that we are going to ignore in the United States military.

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.