Had it not been for slavery the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.

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

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.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

We have abolished the death penalty for humans so why should it continue for animals?

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty which quite frankly I could have done.

Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage don't move to California.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.