Death Quote by Boston Recorder

“He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled. Either somebody had really had it in for him or four…

— Richard S. Prather

“His crime had been death itself, and he had been sentenced with life.”

— Brian Robert Smith

“And yet were you to talk to such a martyr, to the woman who is about to be hanged, even just as she nears…

— Peter Kropotkin

Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.

— George Herbert

“Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?”

— Christopher Fry

Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Mae Tuck must never go to the gallows. Whatever happened to the man in the yellow suit, Mae Tuck must not be hanged. Because…

— Natalie Babbitt

“With this purpose, the author chose for the subject of his story a woman named Catherine Hayes, who was burned at Tyburn, in 1726,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“...he had a second batch of recalcitrant friars to be dispatched to Tyburn, to be slit up and gralloched by the hangman. They were…

— Hilary Mantel

“A few days after Eiko’s wedding, we learned Young had hanged himself. In his suicide note he wrote: I’ve lost face so much, I…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“recognize him as such, too. Yes, he had disobeyed his queen. So had many others, who’d never been punished so harshly. Had the crime…

— Karen Marie Moning

“When he was gone, they were certain at least of receiving constant information of what was going on, and their uncle promised, at parting,…

— Jane Austen