Death Penalty Deterrent Quotes & Sayings

If, one day, I am able to find the fortitude to stare January 18, 2012 directly in the face, and then hand it to you as I see it, then you will know that I somehow began to emerge from this black hole reborn, with a renewed spirit. — Zack Love

A lip brush is really helpful when applying a red lip because it makes the lines smoother. You can see a bumpy line from really far away. — Gracie Gold

If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to me, is not a tough call. — John C. McAdams

I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives. — George W. Bush

When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by certain types of mankind proving superior to the rest in survival value, so that they contribute a larger proportion to the later generations, and in so doing drag the average qualities of humanity in the same direction. — Charles Galton Darwin

Fairytale: presents impossible events under possible or almost impossible conditions as though they were possible. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The enemy works overtime to keep us in shame. He knows if he can keep us in shame, he can minimize our intimacy with God. — Mike Bickle

I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point. — Janet Reno

I have done a lot to rehabilitate my reputation. — Kevin Mitnick

Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open. — Rian Johnson

maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I — Jon Ronson

Now, on the subject of deterrence, I admit that there can be little doubt that as presently administered in the United States, the death penalty is not a general deterrent to murder in many, if not most, situations. . . .

But of one thing I am certain: it is, by God, a specific deterrent. No one who has been executed has ever taken another innocent life. And until such time as we really mean it as a society when we say 'imprisonment for life,' I, and the families of countless victims, would sleep better at night knowing there is no chance that the worst of these killers will ever again be able to prey on others. Even then, I personally believe that if you choose to take another human life, you ought to be prepared to pay with your own. — John E. Douglas

The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment ... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society. — Thurgood Marshall

The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. — Martin O'Malley

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent. — Steve Largent

And so it's no surprise that people who object to the death penalty on pure moral grounds also think it has no deterrent effect, and people who like the death penalty on grounds of retribution tend to think it has deterrent effects. They like that, and they believe that. I think with climate change we're seeing very much the same thing where those who deny climate change, they don't like that, and they don't believe it. — Cass Sunstein

Resentment-why, it is purification; it is a most stinging and painful consciousness! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He picked up one of the dead bats and covered it with his handkerchief. 'Somebody's mother,' he murmured reverently. — P.G. Wodehouse

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society. I reject the notion that the death penalty has any essential deterrent effect on potential offenders. I am convinced that the contrary is true - that savagery begets only savagery. — Andrei Sakharov

I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime ... period. — Troy King

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often. — Edward Abbey