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  "whenever any American life

  is taken by another unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in defiance of the law... in an attack of violence or in response to violence - the whole nation is degraded."

  ...Robert F. Kennedy

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  "people who were fully informed

  as to the purposes of the death penalty and it's liabilities would find the penalty shocking, unjust, and unacceptable."

  ... Thurgood Marshall, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice

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  "capital punishment is

  society's final assertion that it will not forgive."

  ...Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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  "what you do to those men,

  you do to God."

  ...Mother Teresa, To a California Death Row guard in 1987

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  "an eye for an eye

  makes the whole world blind."

  ...Mahatma Gandhi

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  "The satisfaction of retribution

  that the death penalty supplies can never outweigh the danger of unfair or erroneous application as long as it exists."

  ...New York Times

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  "i have reached the conviction

  that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. reasons: 1. irreparability in the event of an error in justice; 2. detrimental moral influences [on a society carrying out an execution]."

  ...Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize winner

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  "i have always found that mercy

  bears richer fruits than strict justice."

  ...Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States

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  "my brother was a man of love and

  sentiment and compassion. he would not have wanted his death to be cause for the taking of another life."

  ...Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy on Robert F. Kennedy's assassination by Sirhan Sirhan

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  "[the death penalty is a reflection

  of the animal instinct still in human beings"

  ...Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa, Nobel Peace Prize winner

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