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I don't want to be a pessimist. I'm a realist. One man's realist is another man's pessimist.

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Albert Pierrepoint

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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It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree. . . . I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.

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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. . . 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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Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

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