Death Penalty” for child rape irrespective of the degree of offence or homicide , and rigorous penalty for child molestation, would serve as an excellent deterrent mechanismDebates on Human Rights to the perpetrator of the...

But secondly you say ‘society must exact vengeance, and society must punish’. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time.

I would not tell this court that I do not hope that some time, when life and age have changed their bodies, as they do, and have changed their emotions, as they do — that...

through god’s eyes murder is still murder. there’s no such thing as a legal murder, it’s only legal through the eyes of a murderer.

The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit...

The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.

But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be equivalence, the death penalty would have...

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to.

For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a...

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

Agnes: “I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth.” Tóti: “Yes.” Agnes: “And God said: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’Tóti: “Yes. Tóti said carefully.” Agnes: “Then Blondal and the...

God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first....