I could not become an American citizen. I would not like to become a citizen of a country that has capital punishment.
The punishment of a liar is that he is never believed, even when he speaks the truth.
(Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.
This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.
When God wants to punish an idiot, He teaches them a few words of Hebrew.
In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical, inverted figure of the king.
The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.
