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If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

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

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

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

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

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

If we believe in our current penal process, then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should be the only sanctions for one's crime, not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.