Penalty Quotes

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

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.

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.

What we've seen this season is that if something that will enhance performance is available, some players will indulge... unless the penalty is an absolute deterrent.

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

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

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

The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty.

There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

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

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box.

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.

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty.

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