Abe Bonowitz Quotes (7 Quotes)

What appears to be clear is that he suffered in part of a result from his experience in Vietnam.

Here's a guy who survived death row, who was wrongly convicted.

We are better served by throwing away the key. The victims' families . . . probably have been told, 'Wait until we kill them and then you'll feel better.' The experience we have is nothing's going to make them feel better.

I used to say, why don't we kill them all, I'll pull the switch myself. In trying to figure out why we don't kill them all, I realized how unfair it is.

This is a stunning and very welcome development that puts on hold all Florida executions and may well put a time out on all lethal injection executions in the United States.

I'm sad to see him go. I hope and pray we get the level of cooperation from the next director as we did from Crosby. When he saw a problem, he fixed it.

Our message is that, purely as a public policy, the death penalty fails.