107 Quotes About Death-penalty

In the state I was in, if someone had come and told me I could go home quietly, that they would leave me my life whole, it would have left me cold: several hours or several years of waiting is all the same when you have lost the illusion of being eternal.

Oh, the sanitized way of saying it is "sentenced to death." But let's call it what it is. They wanted to murder me because I had murdered.

Death stationed itself in the corner and would not go away. It would not go away because it was my thought. It is not death that is terrible, but the knowledge of it: it would be utterly impossible to live if a man could know exactly and definitely the day and hour of his death.

I slide out of the booth, the diner, into the heat of the afternoon hating with every inch of my bones the so-called free country I live in, the home of the brave.

But it happens, doesn't it?Death.Either suddenly or steadily.But you never put it in your calendar,X marks the spot –let's get the headstone in a Black Friday saleand have the name chiselled into it.You can never usually plan on death like that.

But the rope is still more horrible when it forms the noose around the necks of weak and ignorant people.

It was strange to think that so much humane painstaking care and exertion was being introduced into the business of hanging people; that the most insane deed on earth was being committed with such an air of simplicity and reasonableness.

Why did he not cry? He must have forgotten even that he had a voice.

You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him