California Quote by Catherine Crier

I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

— Oliver North

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

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part…

— Jorge Luis Borges

There is one appointed supreme executioner. Truly, trying to take the place of the supreme executioner is like trying to carve wood like a…

— Laozi

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…

— Jay Leno

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

In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished…

— George Ryan

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

— Albert Camus

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

— John Simon

Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown.

— Larry Wilmore

Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant,…

— Abraham Lincoln

Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg