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“In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here”

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Author:Troy King

“It sends the signal that you can kill and walk away and not face the kind of justice that you ought to pay for those kinds of acts.”

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Author:Troy King

“Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.”

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Author:Coretta Scott King

“The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another, not even when it is cloaked as 'justice' and state-sanctioned. It is only a delusion to believe that one's pain is ended by making someone else feel pain.”

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Book:Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty

Source: Choosing Mercy: A Mother of Murder Victims Pleads to End the Death Penalty

“The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.”

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Author:John Hickenlooper

“I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he fled, [because] that is what he faced.”

“In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a battlefield - however despicable - are guaranteed a trial by our Constitution. No one argues that Americans who commit treason shouldn't be punished. The maximum penalty for treason is death. But the Constitution specifies the process necessary to convict.”

“The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.”

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Author:Assata Shakur

“For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

“It wasn't the intention to do something important, or to even relate about social issues. The ground is so fertile in the justice world, dealing with the death penalty and the Innocence Project, for characters that have a moral ambiguity, which we were both attracted to. It's the idea that everybody has their reasons. Whatever their actions are, whether you agree with them or not, you can understand why they're feeling that way, in terms of racism or even the death penalty.”

“I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, dealing with the fact that we have more people in jail, shamefully, than any other country on Earth, that I am against the death penalty, Secretary Clinton is not, I think, as people become familiar with my ideas, we are going to do better and better.”