239 Quotes About Execution

It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed!

A hanging, though, was something different. I got to thinking. We hadn’t never been to nothing just to have a good time. A hanging was special and we was all getting to go.

Nonconsensual execution can never be humanely executed.

Poor Ramon.

Instead of falling to the ground like a heavy doll, as Kermin had seen the prisoners do at the Chetnik executions, his mother shrank into herself, a reverse blossoming, coming to rest in a sitting position, like a ruminative Buddha

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.("New York Blues")

Most of the people readily accept the principle but resist its practice.

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

Having beautiful plans is easy. Execution is hard. Will you be focused enough?