Bother Quote by George Carlin

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human…

— John Grisham

“Most of the people on Death Row are here for no other reason than that their case got more publicity than others. The difference…

— Damien Echols

Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through it, you're…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

“I noticed some scratch marks and faded blood stains high up on a wall. “What happened there?” “An inmate must have tried to escape.…

— Simon Palmer

Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes…

— Soren Kierkegaard

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public…

— Saint Augustine

“Killing yourself isn’t against the law. If you succeed, there’s nothing they can do to punish you for it. And if you fail, you…

— Hendrik Groen

Because we do not understand all the circumstances surrounding someone's suicide, the level of the person's accountability, and the penalty that the Lord, in…

— Brent L. Top

Life insurance companies are failing to pay out death benefits when they know the person is dead, and they're claiming they don't know.

— Lesley Stahl

Why do they put alcohol on the arm of a death row inmate before they give him the needle? Are they afraid he might…

— Nikhil Saluja

The taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process... Where…

— Ban Ki-moon

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they…

— Thomas Sowell