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I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.
The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.
I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.
The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.
Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.
Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.
If, through death penalty, we can create fears, though it's against my will, we have to do it.
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!
My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.
We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it?
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.
I Don't Want To Live Long. I Would Rather Get The Death Penalty Than Spend The Rest Of My Life In Prison
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.
I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.
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 victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.
It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.
This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.
The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it.
I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.
I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.
I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.
The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.
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.
When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.
When you sit around at dinner talking about the death penalty, it's hard to find relevance in what color shoes will be next season.
The court was not previously aware of the prisoner's many accomplishments. In view of these, we see fit to impose the death penalty.
If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving.
It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.
There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.