The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.
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.
I think life is sacred whether it's abortion or the death penalty.
I will admit like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.
I think people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
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.
I am against the death penalty.
Judged by the law of England I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.