There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinity with murderers than those who are not.

Murder is the execution of someone that the murderer thinks is guilty and execution is the murder of someone society thinks is guilty.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks, instead of crosses.

I support capital punishment. Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to ten years with time off for good behavior?

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Capital punishment would be more effective as a deterrent if it were administered prior to the crime.

Capital punishment is society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

-I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

It is far more ignominious to die by justice than by an unjust sedition.

The compensation for a death sentence is knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

It is fairly obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinity with assassins than those who are not.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.