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God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals. -- R.J. Rushdoony
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. -- Alan Parker
[I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians. -- Bill Frist
We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals? -- Brigitte Bardot
I was badly mauled by people in New York State for being against the death penalty for 12 years. -- Mario Cuomo
I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . . -- Desmond Tutu
It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act. -- Raymond Pettibon
If the law imposed the death penalty for parking tickets, we'd not only have fewer parking tickets, we'd also have much less driving. -- Lawrence Lessig
Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing. -- Michelangelo Antonioni
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis. -- Yasser Arafat
The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death penalty for convicted murderers is "cruel and unusual punishment." -- Joseph Farah
In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco. -- Andrew Weil
I support the death penalty for the kingpin, the guy at the top, but I don't think you should throw a drug offender in jail for five years, and let a mugger out after a year. -- Charles Schumer
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. -- Anthony Burgess
One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England. -- Glenn T. Seaborg
I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error. -- George Ryan
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
I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent. -- Steve Largent
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
The measure would set criminal penalties, the same as those that would apply if harm or death happened to the pregnant woman, for those who harm a fetus. -- Ken Calvert
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. -- Janet Reno
I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent. -- Jesse Ventura
I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed. -- Gary Johnson
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt. -- Janet Reno
Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that. -- Philip Kaufman
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
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying. -- Nick Cave
The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent? -- Richard LaGravenese
I'm for a stronger death penalty. -- George W. Bush
The death penalty is reserved for people who do not -- Paul Simon
How can anyone be against abortion but for the death penalty -- Loesje
The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death. -- Cassandra Danz
I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K. -- Hilary Swank
For me the hardest struggle in my faith life was the Catholic Church is against the death penalty. -- Tim Kaine
I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families. -- Rob McKenna
I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving. -- Bill Maher
Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty. -- Jay Leno
My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty contradicts this. -- Dalai Lama
Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life. -- Jay Sekulow
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life. -- Desmond Tutu
Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals. -- Scott Harshbarger
The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone to get the death penalty. -- Jesse Ventura

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