Eddie Murphy Quotes

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

The death penalty scares the hell out of me. We now see about one out of eight errors in these convictions.

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.

I want to see if she is serious about the death penalty.

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.

Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.

In death row every rule in society is flipped.

The world is itself but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

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?

I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs.

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

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

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

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.