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They were the most agonizing and difficult decisions I have made as Governor and I have revisited and questioned them over and over again during the past 14 years. I do not believe that those executions made us safer; and certainly they did not make us nobler as a society.
... I refuse to be a part of this compromised and inequitable system any longer; and I will not allow further executions while I am Governor.
-- Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber announcing that no more executions will happen while he is in office, 22 November 2011
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