Lethal Punishment Quotes

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.

If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.

I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

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.

Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out." "Can you actually do that to a man?" "You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for.[...]

Why does the new crime bill have so many new ways of killing people?

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?

The death sentence is a barbaric act.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

I don't like repeat offenders; I like dead offenders.

If we as a society are willing to take human life, then we should be willing to watch it being taken.

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

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.

I believe Timothy McVeigh getting the death penalty for his heinous act of killing over a hundred in Oklahoma City, that could very well deter others that might want to enter into that similar conduct.

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

Execute murderers, abortionists, accessories.

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

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

Abortionists should be put to death.

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong