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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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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

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I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

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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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The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. ↗

— Bobby Scott

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We're also the only country that has the Death Penalty. That's something to boast about, isn't it? ↗

— Tony Randall

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. ↗

— Albert Camus

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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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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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