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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
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.' -- Jeff Lindsay
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. -- Edwin M. Stanton
If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant. -- Cesare Beccaria
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay. -- Ovid
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy. -- Charles Spurgeon
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour. -- Seneca the Younger
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor. -- Seneca the Younger
Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death. -- Eric Hoffer
The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. -- Carl Jung
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world. -- Pope John Paul II
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. -- Paul Simon
The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him. -- Nehemiah Adams
The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful. -- Cesare Beccaria
I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me. -- Marquis de Lafayette
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation. -- Benjamin Franklin
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. -- Albert Einstein
The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death. -- Gore Vidal
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society. -- Ujjwal Nikam
Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment. -- Gena Showalter

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