Quote

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

I am against the death penalty.

I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

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

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society.

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