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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this. — Dalai Lama
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
There is a very broad theory that society gets the right to hang, as the individual gets the right to defend himself. Suppose she does;… — Wendell Phillips
It doesn't make any difference if you are in favor of capital punishment or if you are opposed to capital punishment. The fact of the… — Unknown Author
The attorney general doesn't favor one method or the other, he favors the death penalty. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration… — Ramsey Clark
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for… — Helen Prejean
To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way effected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant… — Byron White
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of… — Unknown Author
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the… — Thurgood Marshall
The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life: who will proclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel of life in every situation.… — Pope John Paul II
I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness in the infliction of [death]… — Harry A. Blackmun
I cannot see any of these death penalty cases where there hasn't been a violation on the ground of either poverty or race. If we… — Harry A. Blackmun
The death penalty fulfills a preventive function, but it is also very clearly a form of revenge. It is an especially severe form of punishment… — Dalai Lama

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