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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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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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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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Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane. ↗

— Ron White

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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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I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. ↗

— Jerry Weller

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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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