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  1. Jan 9, 2023 · Violence is the disease not the cure.”. — Shane Claiborne, in a tweet. “The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.”. — Bobby Scott. “Allowing the state to kill its citizens for any reason diminishes our humanity and sets a sadistic and dangerous precedent that is unworthy of a civilized society ...

    • Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. Albert Camus. Punishment, Murder, Penalties.
    • Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. Henry Ford. Inspirational, Punishment, Charity.
    • Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood. Victor Hugo. Blow, Blood, Tears.
    • I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live.
  2. Read these Death Penalty Quotes. “The death penalty is a warning, just like a lighthouse throwing beams out to sea. We hear about shipwrecks, but we do not hear about the ships the lighthouse guides safely on their way. We do not have proof of the number of ships it saves, but we do not tear the lighthouse down.”. – Justice Scalia.

  3. Martin Luther King, Jr. Expression, Punishment, Death Penalty. 75 Copy quote. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed in retaliation. Coretta Scott King. Evil, Deeds, Death Penalty. 73 Copy quote. Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders. Albert Camus.

  4. Dec 20, 2019 · More than half of U.S. adults (56%) say Black people are more likely than White people to be sentenced to death for committing similar crimes. About six-in-ten (63%) say the death penalty does not deter people from committing serious crimes, and nearly eight-in-ten (78%) say there is some risk that an innocent person will be executed.”.

  5. Aug 8, 2024 · Deterrence is probably the most commonly expressed rationale for the death penalty. The essence of the theory is that the threat of being executed in the future will be sufficient to cause a significant number of people to refrain from committing a heinous crime they had otherwise planned. Deterrence is not principally concerned with the ...

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