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I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.
You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty.
I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.
I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed.
I'm really trying to bring an end to the death penalty because it means so much to me.
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
The death penalty doesn't need your assent to continue ... it needs your indifference.
The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.
The death penalty in the U.S. has become a political tool - and it should never be that.
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty.
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 was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
For me, the ethical arguments that resonate strongest are the ones that oppose the death penalty.
I hope that America will do away with the death penalty. I truly believe we are better than that.
My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!
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 sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings.
The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.
I haven't committed all the crimes in my movies, I would have gotten the death penalty many years ago if I had.
I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.
Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.
Now I am dedicating that life to campaigning against the death penalty and raising awareness about human rights.
The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
Now let me get this straight. Bush is anti-abortion, but pro-death penalty. I guess it's all in the timing, huh?
Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.
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.
Any effort to make the death penalty speedier and less costly - more 'efficient' - will inevitably make it less just.
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 . . .