#death penalty

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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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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First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

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The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country. ↗

— Dennis Miller

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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. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. ↗

— Jerry Weller

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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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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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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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