Any kind of death sentence is cruel. It doesn't matter what kind of death, I think the psychological punishment of knowing you're going to die is cruel.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

This criminal deserves the death penalty, the highest punishment, Execution, execution, we demand execution.

Regarding those who face the death penalty, I announce that we are changing that punishment and will make (the maximum penalty) life imprisonment.

I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishment in horrific cases, and two, it's a deterrent. There are studies that say that for every person executed, eight innocent people who might otherwise have been murdered were not.

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