"To top it off, for those of..." - Quote by Ralph Nader
To top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.
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“I always say there's no ticket of admission for active citizenship. Anybody can get through that gate, and anybody can ask that basic question that gets the ball rolling.”
“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.”
“Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.”
More on Death Penalty
“If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.”
“The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.”
“Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.”
More on Justice System
“In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes.”
“Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.”
“Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.”