#capital punishment

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again. ↗

— Bill Maher

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Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. ↗

— James Madison

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Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death. ↗

— Paul Simon

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Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally. ↗

— Charlize Theron

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But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

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If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow. ↗

— Steve Allen

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As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

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