Executions Quotes

31 quotes by 28 authors

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. — George Carlin
A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for, with a very… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they… — Mark Twain
There has never been any evidence that the death penalty reduces capital crimes or that crimes increased when executions stopped. Tragic mistakes are prevalent...It is… — Jimmy Carter
Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime,… — Ramsey Clark
I tell myself that I had simply better accept the fact that the death penalty is here to stay in our society, at least for… — Helen Prejean
It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out… — Albert Pierrepoint
All this happiness on display is suspect... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing… — Ian Mcewan
This strongly asserted but ill-defined license to kill without accountability is not an entitlement which the United States or other states can have without doing… — Philip Alston
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the… — Albert Pierrepoint
On Tuesday, the so-called Islamic State released a slickly produced video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a steel cage. On Wednesday, the… — Jonah Goldberg
As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because… — Jeanne Woodford
I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me and I started shaking. And then I walked… — Fred Allen
USA Today reports that the number of death row executions this year has hit a 35-year low. They attribute that to DNA evidence clearing more… — Jay Leno
Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify.… — Mary Wollstonecraft
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
How can you make a revolution without executions? — Vladimir Lenin
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. — Kinky Friedman
I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes. — Kinky Friedman
One man with a gun can control 100 without one. ... Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms. — Vladimir Lenin

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