If I were Sam, I would let Gollum live for one of the reasons posted above. Even Sam can figure out that Gollum would try again to get the Ring, so if I were he, I would let Gollum live and wait for him to try to get the ring at Sammath Nuar. When he did, push him in. It would be a lot easier than having to push Frodo down there, or possibly going down with him.
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"What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name,
Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law.
For old our office, and our fame,"
-Aeschylus, Song of the Furies
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