A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].