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

~Alan Parker

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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

~Albert Camus

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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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I am against the death penalty.

~Andrew Cuomo

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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

~Andrew Cuomo

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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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The campaign against the death penalty has been - while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

~Angela Davis

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It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

~Antonin Scalia

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Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution.

~Antonin Scalia

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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.

~Antonin Scalia

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