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The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members.

The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

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.

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.