I shall ask for the abolition for the punishment of death until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.