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"I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . ."
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"Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty."
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"I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families."
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"The death sentence is a barbaric act."
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"From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind."
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"The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill."
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"Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge."
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"The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often."
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"The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in human beings."
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"What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God."
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"The death penalty makes us all murderers."
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"For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it."
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"I stood up to the liberal elite when they came to our state (Alabama) and tried to eliminate the death penalty, we won, they lost."
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"I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period."
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"The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them."
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"I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . ."
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"To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure."
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"If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death."
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