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All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.

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The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.

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I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people.

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Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

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This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. At this still hour the self-collected soul Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there Of high descent, and more than mortal rank; An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
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Albert Pierrepoint

Albert Pierrepoint

Born: March 30, 1905
Died: July 10, 1992 (aged 87)
Bio: Albert Pierrepoint was a long-serving hangman in England. He executed at least 400 people, including William Joyce and John Amery. In Germany and Austria after the war, he executed some 200 people who had been convicted of war crimes.

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