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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

It's wrong to kill.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified.

Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'