Electric chair Quote by James French

“I can see the headline now: 'murderer attempts to murder murderer.”

— Lemony Snicket

“his former boss at CIA, Simpson had still been sitting in death, only with him instead of a car seat it was a ladder-back…

— David Baldacci

“Maybe if you discover the murderer you’ll be a hero. At the minute I’m not entirely certain you’re anything more than a one-inch newspaper…

— Lauren James

“We cut down trees that do not bear fruit! We have to bring back the death penalty! It’s the only way to deal with…

— Steen Langstrup

“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I…

— Donna Tartt

“Biggest case we've had here in five years was when Dan Schwartz got drunk and shot up his own trailer, then he went on…

— Neil Gaiman

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived…

— Uwe Boll

“The next morning the newspapers carried the news that while our meeting was being held there had been staged in Paris, Texas, one of…

— Ida B. Wells-Barnett

“two white men were put on trial for a particularly gruesome set of murders in the French Congo; to celebrate Bastille Day, one had…

— Adam Hochschild

“They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their…

— Stephen King

“Simon Koertig took no pleasure from the act of murder. That wasn’t true, exactly. He took tremendous pleasure from the art of murder. Of…

— Craig Schaefer

“And then there was punishment. Hundreds of machines were being used not just by police forces and homicide detectives for investigative purposes but also…

— Scott J. Holliday