#penalty

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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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No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


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'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.


Marquis de Sade


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That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them.


Alfred Sutro


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Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.


Bill Maher


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is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution - the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?


Edward Humes


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The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country.


Koestler Arthur


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Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments." [On Water]


Guy de Maupassant


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First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty.


Patricia Cornwell


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