#penalty

I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death-penalty #justice #justice-system #legal-system #reasonable-doubt

Your best penalty killer is your goalie. ↗

— Dave Allison

#killer #penalty #your

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

#death-penalty #punishment #the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man #vengeance #victor-hugo

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#death #death penalty #i #mock #penalty

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#back #citizens #criminal #hurting #law-abiding

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent. ↗

— Lou Brock

#message #penalty #sent

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#certain #consequences #deterrent #effect #factor

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal. ↗

— Ovid

#eternal #may #penalty #removed

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#death #death penalty #deter #does #first

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#death #death penalty #desire #driving #father