Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jimmy Carter on the Death  Penalty:"I became increasingly concerned about the extremely distorted and abusive executions of poor, minority, and mentally deficient accused persons in America

. . . . I agree fully with the statement of my wife Rosalynn . . . 

that calls for a federal and state moratorium on the death penalty." 

(The Carter Center, "Background on President and Mrs. Carter's Stance on the Death Penalty," October, 2000).