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Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge.

Albert Pierrepoint

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Albert Pierrepoint
Age: 87 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 30
Died: 1992
Died: July 10
Executioner
Clayton
Bradford
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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.
Albert Pierrepoint
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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.
Albert Pierrepoint