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

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

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.

Evolving societal values indicate that the death penalty should be abolished in its entirety.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.

I am against the death penalty.

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.