The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder. — Geoffrey Fisher
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw
All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. — Joseph de Maistre
If you’re going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way. — Jayne Mansfield
Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. — Henry Ford
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. — John Ruskin