Political Quotes

“support of the Conyers-Nadler-Berman amendment is opposition to the imposition of the death penalty in cases of terrorism. The World Trade Center fiasco that took so many lives and cost so much money and created so much havoc would be beyond the reach of American citizens sitting as a jury to determine whether or not a death penalty should apply. In fact, there was no death penalty at the time of the World Trade Center tragedy, neither on the Federal level or on the State level. At any rate, if we vote for this amendment, we eviscerate habeas corpus reforms that we on this side of the aisle are trying to impose so that the death penalty, which is approved by the American people by an 80-percent margin, will also be complemented by a swift execution, using that word wisely, a swift execution of the sentence. We need deterrence. Deterrence can only be accomplished by a swift carrying out of the sentence. The people on death row should be given one chance and one chance alone, not 11 years' worth of chances to fight their death sentence, and after that, justice must prevail. A jury, remember, has found that individual guilty of tragic, heinous, horrible crimes, killed people, and now he seeks mercy while we seek justice. We need to defeat the Conyers-Nadler-Berman measure and revert to the reforms that we have in the main bill, which will allow a just finalization of a death sentence.”