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I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

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

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'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

I am against the death penalty.

When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

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.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.