Julius Rosenberg Quotes

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

Malcolm is worthy of death.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

I believe in the death penalty.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. Time will pass and seasons will come and go. Spring with its waving green grass and heaps of sweet-smelling flowers on every hill and in every dale. Then sultry Summer, with her shimmering heat-waves on the baked horizon. And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growing brown and golden under a sinking sun. And finally Winter, with its biting, whining wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. But you won't be here to see any of 'em; not by a damn sight, because it's the order of this court that you be took to the nearest tree and hanged by the neck till you're dead, dead, dead, you olive-colored son of a billy goat.

The people would be just as noisy if they were going to see me hanged.

The system of death-penalty justice is compromised and inequitable.

Somewhere within the concept of justice, the worst of the guilty must always be removed. I cannot divorce this, not completely. The people must have justice and so I want to reinstate and enshrine the blessed and holy guillotine!

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

I am pro-death penalty, but not an enthusiastic death-penalty person. I think there's a place for it, that it should serve as a deterrent.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

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

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

The law is cruel.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States.

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.