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The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

I am against the death penalty.

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.

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

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.