John Spenkelink quotes

“Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.”
-- John Spenkelink

#Punishment Quotes #Death Penalty Quotes

“Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.”

“I'm sure if the punishment fits the crime, or is more severe, you're going to start stamping out a lot of things that are going on in football.”

“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.”

“One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”

“The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

“I am against the death penalty.”

“It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.”

“In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.”

Source : Bernice King (1999). “Hard Questions, Heart Answers”, p.45, Harmony

“The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.”

“To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.”