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Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though w

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we dont 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. – Eliot Spitzer

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Its time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. – Eliot Spitzer

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After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. – Eliot Spitzer

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Yes, people pull the trigger – but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. – Eliot Spitzer

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The difference between art about death and actual death is that ones a celebration and the others a dull fact. – Damien Hirst

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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. – William Lloyd Garrison

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. – Walter Benjamin

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Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. – Miguel de Unamuno

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