It took only a moment to cause this head to fall and a hundred years will not suffice to produce its like. (on the execution of chemist Antoine Lavoisier during the 1789 French revolution)
Capital Punishment Quotes
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
To undertake executions for the master executioner is like hewing wood for the master carpenter. Whoever undertakes to do so rarely escapes injuring his own hands.
I had a student ask me, “Could the savior you believe in save Osama bin Laden?” Of course, we know the blood of Jesus Christ can save him, and then he must be executed.
Does loving your enemy mean not punishing him? No, for loving myself does not mean that I ought not to subject myself to punishment – even to death. If you had committed a murder, the right Christian thing to do would be to give yourself up to the police and be hanged. It is, therefore, […]
We visit prisoners on death row, and some of them are saved, but we believe their sentences should be carried out because they have a debt to society.
How often when they find a sage, As sweet as Socrates or Plato; They hand him hemlock for his wage, Or bake him like a sweet potato!
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
The one sure cure for the professional criminal is the rope. Once it has been applied to his neck, his days of preying upon his betters are over, and the cops have accomplished something that is lasting and real.
Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.
