#death penalty

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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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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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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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. ↗

— Janet Reno

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I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row. ↗

— Gary Bauer

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We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

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I am against the death penalty. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty. ↗

— Bill Paxton

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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. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. ↗

— Jerry Weller

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