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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.”

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Author:Janet Reno

“I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said that every time an execution is carried out in the United States, up to 75 murders are prevented the next year.”

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Author:Troy King

“Mexico has many more kidnappings than the United States. The U.S. has very few kidnappings.The reason is, in the United States, we don't pay ransom. We turn it over to the FBI. They catch the person. And then, of course, we used to have the death penalty for it. Now it's life in prison. In Mexico, everybody pays. It's a business.”

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Author:Rudy Giuliani

“Ninety countries still hold on to capital punishment, and, sadly, one of these is the United States, the only Western industrialized country to practice this barbaric punishment.”

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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 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

“If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.”

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Book:Reflections

Source: Reflections

“It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.”

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Author:Rudy Giuliani

“There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.”

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Author:Bianca Jagger