#death penalty

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

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

— Eric Holder

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Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty. ↗

— Angela Davis

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Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message. ↗

— John Grisham

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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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I think life is sacred, whether it's abortion or the death penalty. ↗

— Tim Kaine

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If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

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Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that. ↗

— Philip Kaufman

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To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law. ↗

— Byron White

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

— Alan Parker

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