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The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence. -- Byron White
I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. -- Laura Linney
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly. -- Jean Baudrillard
I have the death sentence in seven genres. -- Jasper Fforde
The age of 40 is not a death sentence. -- George Foreman
Life as we know it is a death sentence. -- Joseph Curiale
Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence. -- Julie Payette
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached. -- Antonin Scalia
I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms. -- Jodi Picoult
I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. -- Irakli Okruashvili
These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual. -- Potter Stewart
Breast Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence, stay strong and centered and be involved in all aspects of your treatment. -- Olivia Newton-John
Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it's a promise! -- Maria V. Snyder
A death sentence will be issued, a death sentence will be implemented. A life sentence will be issued, a life sentence will be implemented. -- Mohammed Morsi
Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims. -- Gil Garcetti
The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. -- Vladimir Nabokov
AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease. -- William J. Clinton
One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history. -- Gene Veith
...Poverty in America today leads not only to anxiety, unhappiness, discomfort and a lack of material goods. It leads to death. Poverty in America today is a death sentence for tens and tens of thousands of our people. -- Bernie Sanders
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. -- Susan Sontag
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no longer trust the U.S. government to invoke and carry out a death sentence under any conditions. -- Ron Paul
Life--a lifelong death sentence. -- Julian Tuwim
The death sentence is a barbaric act. -- Nelson Mandela
Challenging orthodoxy is a death sentence in Washington. -- Stephen Kinzer
There's a death sentence for your Robin of Locksley. -- Claude Rains
This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be. -- Julius Rosenberg
My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence. -- Jai Rodriguez
The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness! -- Evelyn Waugh
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease. -- Yusuf Hamied
The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings. -- Nelson Mandela
Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement. -- David Letterman
What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?' -- Hayao Miyazaki
We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity. -- Cornel West
You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer. -- Clare Balding
Edward Snowden should be brought back from Russia and given due process. And I think the proper outcome would be that he would be given a death sentence. -- Mike Pompeo
The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical. -- F. Lee Bailey
Immortality was overrated, as far as he was concerned. Hardy had enough problems as it was; living forever sounded like a death sentence for someone with his practical sensibilities. -- David S.E. Zapanta
HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience. -- Jay Ellis
After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles. -- Adolf Hitler
The American Dream has become a death sentence of drudgery, consumerism, and fatalism: a garage sale where the best of the human spirit is bartered away for comfort, obedience and trinkets. It's unequivocally absurd. -- Zoltan Istvan
I cherished you inconstant; what would I have done, faithful? Now, even now, when your cruel mouth so calmly speaks my death sentence, I wonder, cold wretch, I wonder still, if I do not love you. -- Jean Racine
There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism. -- Julius Streicher
My grandmother has kept all of his stuff in a drawer. This one notebook was particularly chilling. He's [howard Brookner] writing to his parents knowing he has a death sentence; his movies are how he'll live on. -- Aaron Brookner
It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.' -- Garrett Hedlund
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses -- Susan Sontag
Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly higher. -- Seth Berkley
Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable. -- Tucker Max
I want people who have received a diagnosis of Hepatitis C to know that they didn't just receive a death sentence. They do have options, even if the person who gave them their diagnosis isn't aware of all of them. The path they choose doesn't have to be one of desperation. -- Melody Beattie
I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art. -- Jodie Foster
We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence. -- Garrison Wynn
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. -- Peter Tosh
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. -- Brendan Behan
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. -- Cat Stevens
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime. -- Kamala Harris
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. -- Brendan Behan
We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. -- Victor Hugo
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. -- Terry Pratchett
I'm sorry. I shouldn't be asking such things...' She let the sentence die its own death -- Markus Zusak
Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. -- T. E. Lawrence
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is. -- George R. R. Martin
If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority? -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat. -- Suzy Kassem
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. -- Robert A. Heinlein
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

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