Adolf Hitler Quotes

You will be excellently executed.

Capital punishment, that thing scares me, it really does. I was talking to my friend about the electric chair, and he starts freakin' out. He's like 'the electric chair? That's too good for these people. That's too good for them'. Alright, how do we make the electric chair worse? How about this? They have to pedal a car battery to their own head. Is that ok? Is that enough, Mr. Hitler?

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

… who are weekly sacrificed upon the gallows in sufficient numbers to astonish a civilized people

We should execute 27, or 30 or 35 people at one time.

When the lever is pulled, the body twists and shudders violently, cooks and sizzles obscenely, and emits horrible noises from the nose, mouth and anus…Chapman said it was the ghastliest mode of death he could have conjured, short of slow torture, and that no sane person who witnessed it could possibly oppose its replacement by a less violent means of execution.

The felon would feel only a slight freshness on the back of the neck. With this machine, I chop your head off in a twinkling, and you do not suffer.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.

I don't oppose my own death by firing squad. But that might be letting me off too lightly. Chopping off my head might be better.

We are talking about a pendulum of decency when it comes to societal standards…At one point the guillotine was fine. At one point the firing squad was fine. Our Supreme court is trying to make it more palatable by saying “death by lethal injection”

In England, the ultimate execution method for men who committed high treason was hanging, drawing, and quartering. It was considered indecent at the time to mutilate a woman’s body in this way, so female traitors were burnt at the stake.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone to get the death penalty.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.