I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.