Death Penalty Quotes

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed. Gary Johnson
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I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. George Ryan
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Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. George Ryan
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When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time. Jane Birkin
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I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt. Janet Reno
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I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. Janet Reno
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Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating circumstances. Janet Reno
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More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. Jerry Weller
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I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else. John Grisham
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Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message. John Grisham
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When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were stronger than they turned out to be. John Paul Stevens
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McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done. Jon Stewart
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Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say. Jonathan Shapiro
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The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that. Lennie James
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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years. Mario Cuomo
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No politician after the Nixon-Agnew years would say, 'I was against the death penalty,' because they replaced 'soft on communism' with 'soft on crime.' You just see the horror of this thing. Mike Farrell
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world. N. T. Wright
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First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty. Patricia Cornwell
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Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that. Philip Kaufman
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You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty! Rafael Cruz
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My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty. Reid Hoffman
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Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel. Reid Hoffman
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Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just. Reid Hoffman
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It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute. Richard Cohen
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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