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  • I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.

  • No innocent person ever has an alibi.

    Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”
  • The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.

    Believe   Humor   Mean  
  • That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

    Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 Mar. 1785
  • An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

    "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.
  • The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

  • Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

  • Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

    Yiyun Li (2014). “Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel”, p.308, Random House
  • Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since they're given no competent legal counsel defense in many cases. It's a system that has to be perfect. You cannot execute one innocent person. No system is perfect. And to top it off, for those of you who are interested in the economics it, it costs more to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole.

    "Meet the Press" Interview, June 25, 2000.
  • Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

  • Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.

    Fall   Taken   Men  
    Algernon Sidney (1805). “Discourses on Government”, p.431
  • There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

    Peace   War   Patriotic  
    Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.118, South End Press
  • For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed.

  • The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.80
  • An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.

    Love   Wisdom   Flower  
  • I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back.

    "Amanda Knox on retrial: 'Everything's at stake'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. September 20, 2013.
  • I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, grinds to a dreadful hault, 'won't go,' or, even worse, explodes in some innocent person's face.

  • I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only fairly, with attention to things like DNA evidence, which I think should be used in all capital cases, but also with very careful attention. If the wrong guy is put to death, then that's a double tragedy. Not only has an innocent person been executed but the real perpetrator of the crime has not been held accountable for it, and in some cases may be still at large. But I support the death penalty in the most heinous cases.

    Real   Thinking   Dna  
    "Text Of Third Bush-Gore Debate (cont.)". www.cbsnews.com. October 18, 2000.
  • For my job, I act tough. I'm not tough. On the street, I don't go out beating people up and this and that. I used to joke one time on the television station that I never... Everybody that I beat up deserved it. I never beat up an innocent person.

    Source: chicagoist.com
  • The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

  • Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

  • If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

    Fall   Men   Dust  
    Gautama Buddha (2013). “The Dhammapada”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
  • But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

    Agatha Christie (1974). “Murder in the Calais Coach”, Simon & Schuster of Canada, 1940
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