Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"Isn't all mankind ultimately executed for a crime it never committed?"
Capital Punishment quotes
Capital Punishment
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Nancy Reagan
Political Figure, First Lady
"I favor capital punishment. It saves lives."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take."
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