Death Sentence Quotes

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

I have always been horrified by death sentences, and I decided, as an individual at least, that I could not participate in one, even by abstention … Tell him from me that I did not add my signature to yours for his sake, nor for the person whom I despise with all the force that is in me.

The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death

When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were stronger than they turned out to be.

Proposals to abolish the death penalty demnstrate an effeminacy in the general mind of the country.

Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.

Whosoever changes his religion [Islam] and deviates from it, award him the death sentence

And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is accused by God; you shall not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.

Death is death no matter how it is inflicted

When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

There must be a punitive expedition against the Jews in Russia, a punitive expedition which will expect: death sentence and execution. Then the world will see the end of the Jews is also the end of Bolshevism.

While I live, every criminal must die.

It's over. We've all been sentenced to die.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

We're all vanishing organisms and disappearing creatures in space and time - that death sentence in space in time that Kafka talked about with such profundity.

I'm pro-death. I believe in the death penalty. Let's get on with it.

I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.