#penalty

People who change their religion should face the death penalty. ↗

— Zakir Naik

#bigotry #death-penalty #fanaticism #islam #religion

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#execution #first-line #first-lines #first-sentence #frederick-forsyth

Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis. ↗

— Yasser Arafat

#bank #both #death #death penalty #gaza

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#about #among #applying #catholics #death

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us. ↗

— Eric Holder

#congress #death #death penalty #enforce #gives

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt. ↗

— Stephen King

#death-penalty #prison #death

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#death #death penalty #first #first step #friends

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage. ↗

— Queen Victoria

#deny #doomed #free #generally #girl

The primitive idea of justice is partly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two blacks make a white, and that when a wrong has been done, it should be paid for by an equivalent suffering. It seems to the Philistine majority a matter of course that this compensating suffering should be inflicted on the wrongdoer for the sake of its deterrent effect on other would-be wrongdoers; but a moment's reflection will shew that this utilitarian application corrupts the whole transaction. For example, the shedding of blood cannot be balanced by the shedding of guilty blood. Sacrificing a criminal to propitiate God for the murder of one of his righteous servants is like sacrificing a mangy sheep or an ox with the rinderpest: it calls down divine wrath instead of appeasing it. In doing it we offer God as a sacrifice the gratification of our own revenge and the protection of our own lives without cost to ourselves; and cost to ourselves is the essence of sacrifice and expiation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#death-penalty #justice #punishment #wrongdoing #death