Jeanne Woodford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The death penalty serves no one. It doesn't serve the victims. It doesn't serve prevention. It's truly all about retribution....There comes a time when you have to ask if a penalty that is so permanent can be available in such an imperfect system. The only guarantee against executing the innocent is to do away with the death penalty.
-- Jeanne Woodford

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As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?
-- Jeanne Woodford

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As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.
-- Jeanne Woodford

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We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in an hour.
One of the best aspects of health care reform is it starts to emphasize prevention.
A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.
Prevention is one of the few known ways to reduce demand for health and aged care services.
In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this.

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