November 2010
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“To assert, in any case, that a man must be absolutely cut off from society...”
– Robert Camus
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“It’s just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we...”
– Russ Feingold
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“Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not...”
– Ralph Nader
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“When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some...”
– Anthony Kennedy
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“Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its...”
– William J. Brennan
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“How come life in prison doesn’t mean life? Until it does, we’re not...”
– Jesse Ventura
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“A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his...”
– Ramsey Clark
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“I know something about killing. I don’t like killing. And I don’t...”
– John Kerry
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“I support the death penalty. I think that it has to be administered not only...”
– Al Gore
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“I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital...”
– John Paul Stevens
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“It can be argued that rapists deserve to be raped, that mutilators deserve to be...”
– Stephen Bright
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“The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a...”
– Bryan Stevenson
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“[I am] haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in...”
– George Ryan
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“In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic,...”
– George Ryan
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“When we don’t fund Child Protective Services, there are consequences for...”
– David Atwood
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“I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on...”
– Ruth Bader Ginsbur
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“The most glaring weakness is that no matter how efficient and fair the DP may...”
– Pat Brown
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“To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice”
– Desmond Tutu
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“Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. Decision of who...”
– Gerald Heaney
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“As if one crime of such nature, done by a single man, acting individually, can...”
– Lewis Lawes
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“I have never heard a murderer say they thought about the death penalty as...”
– Gregory Ruff
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“Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.”
– Albert Camus
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“Previously, Pope John Paul has taken a position on capital punishment …...”
– Peter Norden
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“As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent...”
– Paul Simon
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“Does Capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It...”
– Elizabeth Fry
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“The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if...”
– Henry Louis Mencken
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“If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it...”
– Helen Prejean
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“The law which attempts a man’s life is impractical, unjust, inadmissible....”
– Marquis De Sade
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“The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I...”
– Bertrand Russell
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“Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the...”
– George Orwell
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“The killing of a criminal can be moral — but never its legitimation.”
– Walter Benjamin
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“Let all the laws be clear, uniform and precise. To interpret laws is almost...”
– Voltaire
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“The art of policing is, in order not to punish often, to punish severely”
– Napoleon
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“There have been Christian opponents of the death penalty just as there have been...”
– Justice Antonin Scalia
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“The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to...”
– Geoffrey Fisher quotes
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“Laws are rules established by men who are in control of organized violence for...”
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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“Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many...”
– Ambrose Bierce
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“Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the...”
– Bill Clinton
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“One of the uses of our system of justice is to warn others… We are reforming,...”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“There have been Christian opponents of the death penalty just as there have been...”
– Justice Antonin Scalia
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“If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed...”
– John McAdams
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“Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen”
– George Savile
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“Law cannot persuade, where is cannot punish”
– Thomas Fuller
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“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world”
– Mary Wollstonecraft
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“I don’t think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don’t...”
– George Walker Bush
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“If the death penalty is to be abolished, let those gentlemen, the murderers, do...”
– Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
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“We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the...”
– Potter Stewart
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“Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.”
– Orrin Hatch
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“Said a man ingenuously to one of his friends: “This morning we condemned...”
– Nicolas Chamfort
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“What does the law say? “Thou shalt not kill.” How does it say it? By...”
– Victor Hugo