Cash Quote by George Plimpton

It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it…

— Atom Egoyan

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These…

— Anonymous

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

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

— Charles Baudelaire

Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned…

— Harry A. Blackmun

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

When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were stronger than…

— John Paul Stevens

Executing a murderer is the only way to adequately express our horror at the taking of an innocent life. Nothing else suffices. To equate…

— Don Feder

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

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

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Your verdict will be "Guilty" or "Not Guilty." Your job is not to find innocence.

— Russell R Leggett