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 ….

Capital punishment in my view achieved nothing except revenge..

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….

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..