„If one wants to abolish the death penalty in this case, Messrs. murderers should take the first step: they do not kill, we will not kill them.“

„It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.“

—  Virginia Woolf, könyv Jacob's Room

Forrás: Jacob's Room

„In the run-up to World War II, they helped Hitler build the death camps to take the Jews and kill them. Take the gays and kill them. Take the socialists and kill them. Take the Polish partisans and kill them. Take the gypsies and kill them. The Bush Family is eye-ball deep in blood, blood, blood.“

—  Mike Malloy American radio broadcaster 1942

http://server7.whiterosesociety.org/content/malloy/MalloyMemories/Red_Rum.mp3
presumably a reference to the financial support given to Hitler by Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's grandfather
On the Bush family and their associates

„As I see it, the sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.“

—  Larry Flynt American publisher 1942

Larry Flynt: Don't Execute The Man Who Paralyzed Me (Guest Column), 2013-11-21, 2013-10-17, The Hollywood Reporter http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/larry-flynt-dont-execute-man-649158,

„Death penalty, is would you call it and Oxymoron. Death is not a penalty. It's an escape. They treat me like a trophy, like they got me, their gonna kill me, and we won. They didn't win. In the crudest terms, 168 to 1.“

—  Timothy McVeigh American army soldier, security guard, terrorist 1968 - 2001

Interview for American Terrorist (2001) by Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck
2000s

„I don't like the death penalty, although if there is one case where there should be an execution, the fairest case would be for Saddam. But I would never wish for that.“

—  Хатами, Мохаммад Iranian prominent reformist politician, scholar and shiite faqih. 1943

press After a cabinet meeting in Tehran http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/iranian-president-mohammad-khatami-speaks-to-the-press-news-photo/2816904 (18 December 2003)
Attributed

„In Texas, we have the death penalty and we use it! That's right. You come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back! That's our policy. They're trying to pass a bill right now through the Texas legislature that will speed up the process of execution in heinous crimes where there's more than 3 credible eyewitnesses. That means that if three or more people saw you do what you did, you don't sit on Death Row for 15 years, Jack! You go straight to the front of the line. Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty. My state's putting in the express lane!“

—  Ron White American comedian 1956

They Call Me Tater Salad

„The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.“

—  Noam Chomsky american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928

„Many people are familiar with the campaign to abolish the death penalty. In fact, it has already been abolished in ost countries. Even the staunchest advocates of capital punishment acknowledge the fact that the death penalty faces serious challenges. Few people find life without the death penalty difficult to imagine.“

—  Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?

Forrás: Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Chapter One

„Religion’s preferred punishment is almost always death, regardless of the crime. But the death penalty is a statistical failure just like all their proposed solutions to other problems always are. Here in the US, the states that still have the death penalty also have the highest murder rates; its a negative correlation. The problem there is one of society, the conditions imposed and the types of responses that are culturally coaxed. When murder happens, and that person is caught and tried, we should remove them as a threat, and whether they are imprisoned, institutionalized, or what have you should be determined by the particulars in each case.“

—  Aron Ra Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast 1962

Patheos, How is secular humanist governance better than theocracy? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/reasonadvocates/2013/09/07/how-is-secular-humanist-governance-better-than-theocracy/ (September 7, 2013)

„I personally have always voted for the death penalty because I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live. I believe that that death penalty should be used only very rarely, but I believe that no-one should go out certain that no matter how cruel, how vicious, how hideous their murder, they themselves will not suffer the death penalty.“

—  Margaret Thatcher British stateswoman and politician 1925 - 2013

TV Interview for Channel 4 A plus 4 (15 October 1984) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=105764
Second term as Prime Minister

„If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a thing.“

—  Charles Manson American criminal and musician 1934 - 2017

NBC interview (1987)

„The one thing that drives me up the wall is [people] saying, 'Look at all the deaths you Americans have caused in Iraq.' No! 'Scuse me? We invaded the place, we knocked over Saddam, and then Iraqis began killing each other… [B]ut who is doing this killing? Give me a break. These are Iraqis killing each other. So what did we do? If you're saying it's our fault that we unmasked them as knuckle-dragging savages from the 10th century — fine! I'll take credit.“

—  John Gibson (media host) American radio talk show host 1946

April 25, 2007 http://mediamatters.org/research/200704250008

„Death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny. … Retaliation is a prescription from God. … We must rise up and kill those who kill us... Let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.“

—  Louis Farrakhan leader of the Nation of Islam 1933

August 15, 2015 http://www.wnd.com/wnd_video/farrakhan-retaliation-we-must-rise-up-and-kill-those-who-kill-us/ (15 August 2015)

„We know how to deal with apocalyptic blood-thirsty fanatics. We have two thousand years of historical examples in various religions of these death cults exploding out of the mainstream religion. And in two thousand years there is not a single example of these wildfire death cults being put down without extreme violence. Not a single example. But the Obama Administration doesn't know history, they don't want to know history, they don't want to deal with reality. And the reality is: That the way you deal with Islamic State - these blood-thirsty, blood-drunken terrorists - is to kill them, keep on killing them until you kill the last one, then you kill his pet goat! That's how you deal with them.“

—  Ralph Peters American military officer, writer, pundit 1952

Fox News interview (20 August 2014)
2010s

„In Ted's world, we want the death penalty to be imposed at the scene of the crime.“

—  Ted Nugent American rock musician 1948

1994 interview in Westword http://www.westword.com/1994-07-27/music/ted-s-world/full/

„They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.“

—  Iggy Pop American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor 1947

„I wanted my wife to realize clearly one long-term penalty, for herself and for the children, of the step I was taking. I said: "You know, we are leaving the winning world for the losing world."“

—  Whittaker Chambers, Witness

Forrás: Witness (1952), p. 25

„[On the death penalty] Seems so absurd to me that the laws, that are the expression of the public will, that hate and punish the murder, make one themselves, and, to dissuade citizens from the murder, order a public murder.“

—  Cesare Beccaria, könyv On Crimes and Punishments

Forrás: On Crimes and Punishments (1764), Chapter XXVIII

„There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.“

—  Dinesh D'Souza Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author 1961

Forrás: Letters to a Young Conservative