"My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.“


-Andrew Cuomo

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My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

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