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The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

~Burke Marshall

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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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The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

~Clint Smith

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Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.

~Clint Smith

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It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.

~Clint Smith

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As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.

~Coretta Scott King

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The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

~Dennis Miller

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Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

~Dianne Feinstein

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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

~Eliot Spitzer

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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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