Firing Squad Quotes

Socialism is communism without the firing squad.

Henceforth, there shall be no more execution by beheading with an axe.

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

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

Four walls are three too many for a prison — you only need one for an execution

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

You will be excellently executed.

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”

The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.

You have [Donald] Trump and [Ted] Cruz battling it out, and the moderate establishment candidates like Chris Christie or Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich - they have formed a circular firing squad.

Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette.

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?

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

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.

One of the reasons that I chose firing squad as opposed to any other form of execution is because it’s one of the cheapest for the state.

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?

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

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

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.

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.