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“Can we expect a decent society if the state is allowed to kill its own people?” — Coretta Scott King “The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is: ‘Do we deserve to kill?’” — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption “Capita...
“The State is not God. It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if it should so desire.” — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, The Bet “Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary impos...
“True justice is restorative. It heals wounds. The death penalty only creates new wounds.” — Shane Claiborne, in a tweet “I can’t accept the judgment that killers need to be killed, a practice that merely perpetuates the cycle of violence.” — Bernice King “The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of...
“I learned the most important lesson of my life… I didn’t have to see somebody else die in order to bring healing.” — Bill Pelke, who lost his grandmother to murder by a group of teenagers “When Jeffrey was murdered, I wanted the men who killed him dead. I led the fight to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts in 1997. But time passes, and y...
“But secondly you say ‘society must exact vengeance, and society must punish’. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.” ― Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man “The state should not be killing people. Not through militarism. Not by police. Not because of ICE. Not by medical negligence. And not by de...
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“The death penalty is a necessary tool to protect innocent lives.” – George W. Bush. “I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don’t think it’s human to become an angel of death.” – Sister Helen Prejean.
To equate the lives of killers with those of victims is the worst kind of moral equivalency. If capital punishment is state murder, then imprisonment is state kidnapping and restitution is state theft. To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
Black, Hispanic or poor families who have a loved one murdered not only don’t expect the district attorney’s office to pursue the death penalty – which, of course, is both costly and time consuming – but are surprised when the case is prosecuted at all. Helen Prejean.
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Explore 111 Death Penalty Quotes by authors including Albert Camus, Nancy Reagan, and Ron White at BrainyQuote. "The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us."
