"Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment...." - Quote by Barack Obama

“There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening.”

“The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.”

“We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.”

“In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.”

“We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.”

“Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the sort whose departures for bliss eternal improved the average intelligence and decency of the race.”

“A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.”

“Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.”

“The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.”