Death Penalty Quotes

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us. Clint Smith
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. Nancy Reagan
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Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. Pope Benedict XVI
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty. N. T. Wright
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody. Steve Earle
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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. Angela Davis
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I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance. Ian McShane
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My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law. Tim Kaine
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While I am a pro-life woman, I am also a woman who is concerned about rights for the disabled, maternity leave, the death penalty, health care, domestic violence, breastfeeding rights, etc. Abby Johnson
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Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. Alan Parker
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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. Andrew Cuomo
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The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people. Angela Davis
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I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that. Anthony Ray Hinton
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I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me. Anthony Ray Hinton
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It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment. Antonin Scalia
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There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society. Antonin Scalia
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But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution. Antonin Scalia
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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility. Antonin Scalia
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While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11. Benjamin Wittes
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I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. Bill Paxton
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The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life? Blase J. Cupich
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The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. Burke Marshall
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Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed. Clint Smith
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It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible. Clint Smith
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No country can become an E.U. member state if it introduces the death penalty. Federica Mogherini
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death. Gary Johnson
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