It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions. — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor — Seneca Copy Share Image
The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions… — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching her son being put to… — carolee dean Copy Share Image
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society,… — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
States kill when they apply the death penalty, when they send their people to war, or when they carry out extra-judicial or… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge… — Albert Pierrepoint Copy Share Image
“More people perish than want to. Death comes running with astonishing speed, strikes his victims with marvelous accuracy. These include generals, doctors,… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful,… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I have always used rather large execution squads, since I declined to use men who were specialists for shots in the neck… — Paul Blobel Copy Share Image
A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Damned Axe by Stewart Stafford The axe decapitates a head, Society's ills get quickly shed, Can we trust what we don't… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“In North Korea a person has two lives, natural and political. But once you get sent to a prison camp your political… — Bradley K. Martin Copy Share Image
“Henry VIII, for example, who was king of England from 1509 to 1547, ended his days surrounded by a great many young… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“I don't know that you'll understand this, but once upon a time, long ago, I was a scholar and a marathon man,… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things.… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
“I got back into my car and followed the trucks; at the end of the road, the Polizei unloaded the women and… — Jonathan Littell Copy Share Image
“Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris—Europeans flocked to every form of painful death… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
We used to watch executions. I mentioned that in one of my stories. There was a piece of open ground near the… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree…I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions… — Albert Pierrepoint Copy Share Image
As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the… — Jeanne Woodford Copy Share Image
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