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The death penalty symbolizes whom we fear and don't fear, whom we care about and whose lives are not valid. — Bryan Stevenson
As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I… — Unknown Author
For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent… — James Frey
Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which we conservatives know… — Richard Viguerie
I'm opposed to the death penalty not because I think it's unconstitutional per se-although I think it's been applied in ways that are unconstitutional-but it… — Jay Sekulow
When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake. — Unknown Author
I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment. — Bill O'Reilly
I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied. — Oliver North
For justice to have any meaning, it must also mean that no innocent person should ever be executed... — Kathleen Parker
At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough. — Rod Dreher
My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people… — Ed Crane
The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death… — Unknown Author
It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government… — Christy Clark
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed. — Sandra Day O'Connor
It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people. — L. Brent Bozell, Jr.
I agree with Thomas Jefferson, who once wrote that he would support the death penalty only when the infallibility of human judgment had been demonstrated. — Paul Jacob
After years spent in Washington, I have become more aware than ever of the government's ineptness and the likelihood of its making mistakes. I no… — Ron Paul
Many states and even many people who are in support of the death penalty question their support of the death penalty because of the imperfection… — Rand Paul
I have evolved to where I don't think the death penalty is effective. — Unknown Author
With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the state punishes with… — William J. Brennan
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is… — William J. Brennan
It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them… — William J. Brennan
Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world… — Clive Stafford Smith
The time will come when all people will view with horror light way in which society and its courts of law now take human life;… — Clarence Darrow
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime,… — Ramsey Clark

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