Severe Punishment Quotes

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

Instead of useful members of the state, they [ministers] ought to be considered enemies of the community, ... and very justly deserved to be punished with signal severity .

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

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible. It is then an emanation of virtue.

The exclusion of jurors opposed to the death penalty allows the state a special advantage in those prosecutions where the charges are most serious and the possible punishment the most severe.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

I think a lot of people view the death penalty as a debate class or something. The cost and what's at stake is really, really a big deal.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

He was condemned to lose his eyes and genitals, a merciful punishment, for he deserved to be hanged

I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.

I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.

All this talk of using tax policy to 'assess social costs'...what a dumb idea. The only way to stop polluters is to put them against walls and shoot them.

And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya!

Can you imagine the headlines if I gave someone food poisoning? They'd hang me off Tower Bridge by my ballbag!

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

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.

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

Every libel … is made either against a private man, or against a public person. If it be against a private man, it deserves a severe punishment..