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

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

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

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

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.

It would be very difficult, if not altogether impossible, to establish any principle upon which the justice or expedience of capital punishment could be founded in a society glorying in its civilization.