'No man should be put to death, even as an example… There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something.'

'To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.'

'Abolishing capital punishment is not valid by the laws of karma.'

'I believe that people who go out prepared to take the lives of other people forfeit their own right to live.'

'Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?'

'The state is not God. It does not have the right to take away what it cannot restore.'

'The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment is - do we deserve to kill?'

'What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!'

'I don’t think you should support the death penalty to seek revenge. I don’t think that’s right. I think the reason to support the death penalty is because it saves other people’s lives.'

'Let the punishment match the offence.'