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

I am against the death penalty.

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

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

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution.

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.