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My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law.

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.

I am against the death penalty.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

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

My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.

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

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

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