
Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, United States of America
"We’re all more than the worst thing we’ve ever done, because all human beings are capable of change. If our criminal justice system is to change, it should be designed not just to punish, but to also rehabilitate those who’ve committed crimes."


Andrei Paluda, Co-ordinator of the Campaign against the death penalty in Belarus
"From time to time, we are perceived as the devil’s advocates, but, in fact, we are working to make this world a better place. We do not aim at protecting the killer. We protect the human being."


Jean Jaures, Homme politique français (1859 -1914)
"Je crois pouvoir dire qu’elle [la peine de mort] est contraire à ce que l’humanité, depuis deux mille ans, a pensé de plus haut et a rêvé de plus noble."
