“ I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car. Mary Sue Terry Politician
“ Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh? Dennis Miller Comedian
“ I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . Desmond Tutu Activist
“ Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. Eliot Spitzer Former Governor Of New York
“ I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. George Ryan Former Governor Of Illinois
“ This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases. George W. Bush 43rd U.S. President
“ If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death. Gerald Heaney Judge
“ I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money. Gil Garcetti American Politician
“ Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill. Helen Prejean