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This moratorium is in no way an expression of sympathy for the guilty on death row, all of whom have been convicted of committing heinous crimes, this decision is based on a flawed system that has been proven to be an endless cycle of court proceedings as well as ineffective, unjust and expensive. – Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is deeply troubling to me to realize that we have come to a place in the history of this great state of ours where a person can be charged, tried, convicted and sentenced by the media with no due process and no independent verification of the allegations involved, but even more troubling – and on a very personal level as someone who has given 35 years of public service to Oregon – is that so many of my former allies in common cause have been willing to simply accept this judgment at its face value. – Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This moratorium is in no way an expression of sympathy for the guilty on death row, all of whom have been convicted of committing heinous crimes. – Governor Tom Wolf	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The Obama administration claims that it is using ‘prosecutorial discretion’ to prioritize the removal of criminal aliens from this country, but this report shows the disturbing truth: 1,000 undocumented aliens previously convicted of crimes who the administration released in 2013 have gone on to commit further crimes in our communities. – Chuck Grassley	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I believe that if you're not convicted of a crime, then why should you be judged? All it takes is for one person to say something, then you have all these other people wanting to get their 15 minutes of fame. – Robert Belveal	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Ordinary persons would not have their medical records released after their death. But Amy Archer Gilligan was a convicted killer and is part of history with no surviving relatives, she is also a public figure, and when combined with the passage of time – her death plus 50 years – no one would be harmed. – Valicia Harmon	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Wrongful convictions ultimately destroy the lives of the people who are wrongfully convicted, as well as their families, and also do great damage to the integrity of the justice system, the people of Brooklyn elected me to ensure that justice is done and that is what my decision to vacate Derrick Hamilton’s conviction reflects. – Ken Thompson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Miss Maddie house’s the day that God convicted me in my heart that I wanted to be a firefighter when I grew up, all I thought about growing up in Shreveport was not being poor and being a firefighter. – Kelvin Cochran	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The Egyptian president has said a few days after he was convicted that he wouldn't be pardoning Peter until the legal processes have been finalised. – Peter Greste	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
So Joanne Chesimard, a cold-blooded cop-killer, convicted by a jury of her peers, in what is without question the fairest and most just criminal justice system in the world -- certainly much more just than anything that's happened in Cuba under the Castro brothers. She is now, according to an official of the Cuban government, persecuted. – New Jersey	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
You shouldn't hire a person who is convicted of stealing from you to work for you in another position less than a year later. – Henry Sockbeson	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
President Obama's actions have vindicated the brutal behavior of the Cuban government, trading Mr. Gross for three convicted criminals sets an extremely dangerous precedent. It invites dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans serving overseas as bargaining chips. – Bob Menendez	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Trading Mr Gross for three convicted criminals sets and extremely dangerous precedent, it invites dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans serving overseas as bargaining chips. – Robert Menendez	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The club has a responsibility to look at who it is hiring in high-profile positions, and consider whether a convicted rapist, who continues to protest that he's done nothing wrong and whose case has attracted widespread victim-blaming language, is someone that they want to be representing their brand, it's important that high profile institutions take a stand about the seriousness of rape as a crime, and do not in any way condone the blaming of victims of rape, or participate in a culture which trivializes violence against women. – Polly Neate	Found on CNN 9 years ago
No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before. – Colin Greenwood	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions. – Johann Kaspar Lavater	added by anonymous 14 years ago

This moratorium is in no way an expression of sympathy for the guilty on death row, all of whom have been convicted of committing heinous crimes, this decision is based on a flawed system that has been proven to be an endless cycle of court proceedings as well as ineffective, unjust and expensive.

– Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is deeply troubling to me to realize that we have come to a place in the history of this great state of ours where a person can be charged, tried, convicted and sentenced by the media with no due process and no independent verification of the allegations involved, but even more troubling – and on a very personal level as someone who has given 35 years of public service to Oregon – is that so many of my former allies in common cause have been willing to simply accept this judgment at its face value.

– Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This moratorium is in no way an expression of sympathy for the guilty on death row, all of whom have been convicted of committing heinous crimes.

– Governor Tom Wolf

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The Obama administration claims that it is using ‘prosecutorial discretion’ to prioritize the removal of criminal aliens from this country, but this report shows the disturbing truth: 1,000 undocumented aliens previously convicted of crimes who the administration released in 2013 have gone on to commit further crimes in our communities.

– Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I believe that if you're not convicted of a crime, then why should you be judged? All it takes is for one person to say something, then you have all these other people wanting to get their 15 minutes of fame.

– Robert Belveal

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Ordinary persons would not have their medical records released after their death. But Amy Archer Gilligan was a convicted killer and is part of history with no surviving relatives, she is also a public figure, and when combined with the passage of time – her death plus 50 years – no one would be harmed.

– Valicia Harmon

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Wrongful convictions ultimately destroy the lives of the people who are wrongfully convicted, as well as their families, and also do great damage to the integrity of the justice system, the people of Brooklyn elected me to ensure that justice is done and that is what my decision to vacate Derrick Hamilton’s conviction reflects.

– Ken Thompson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Miss Maddie house’s the day that God convicted me in my heart that I wanted to be a firefighter when I grew up, all I thought about growing up in Shreveport was not being poor and being a firefighter.

– Kelvin Cochran

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The Egyptian president has said a few days after he was convicted that he wouldn't be pardoning Peter until the legal processes have been finalised.

– Peter Greste

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

So Joanne Chesimard, a cold-blooded cop-killer, convicted by a jury of her peers, in what is without question the fairest and most just criminal justice system in the world -- certainly much more just than anything that's happened in Cuba under the Castro brothers. She is now, according to an official of the Cuban government, persecuted.

– New Jersey

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You shouldn't hire a person who is convicted of stealing from you to work for you in another position less than a year later.

– Henry Sockbeson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

President Obama's actions have vindicated the brutal behavior of the Cuban government, trading Mr. Gross for three convicted criminals sets an extremely dangerous precedent. It invites dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans serving overseas as bargaining chips.

– Bob Menendez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Trading Mr Gross for three convicted criminals sets and extremely dangerous precedent, it invites dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans serving overseas as bargaining chips.

– Robert Menendez

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The club has a responsibility to look at who it is hiring in high-profile positions, and consider whether a convicted rapist, who continues to protest that he's done nothing wrong and whose case has attracted widespread victim-blaming language, is someone that they want to be representing their brand, it's important that high profile institutions take a stand about the seriousness of rape as a crime, and do not in any way condone the blaming of victims of rape, or participate in a culture which trivializes violence against women.

– Polly Neate

Found on CNN
9 years ago

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

– Colin Greenwood

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.

– Johann Kaspar Lavater

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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