Conferences Quote by Anonymous

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer.…

— Mark Shurtleff

“The feeling against the Mormons as expressed by the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin was: The blood of American citizens cries for vengeance from…

— Juanita Brooks

If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from…

— Caryl Chessman

I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to…

— Jay Bennett

Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah.…

— Ruth May Fox

The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it.

— Shana Alexander

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

— Katharine Hepburn

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

— David Letterman

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

— Mother Teresa

“The least dignified thing that can happen to a man is to be murdered. If he dies in his sleep he gets a respectful…

— Paul Theroux

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death…

— Dana Gioia

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

— Charles Baudelaire