"I cannot see any of these death penalty……" — 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 can ever get that straightened out, it will help. But, of course, the real answer to it is to do away with the death penalty."
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Harry A. Blackmun
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21 Quotes by Harry A. Blackmun
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in…
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually…
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I am more optimistic though, that this court will eventually conclude that the effort to eliminate arbitrariness while preserving fairness…
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Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an…
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By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a…
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I…
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of…
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The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to…
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If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He…
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We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine,…
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From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death,
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The death penalty experiment has failed.
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