Execution Quote by Loren D. Estleman

I'm using the death penalty to keep Alabama family safe from the most violent criminals, why? It's because it works. Recent studies have said…

— Troy King

When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of…

— Shane Claiborne

“I had seen a photograph of Emmett Till's body just after it was pulled from the river. I had seen photographs of white folks…

— Alice Walker

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the…

— Mark Twain

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

— Ida B. Wells

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the…

— Ida B. Wells

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of…

— George Allen

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and…

— H. L. Mencken

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think…

— Martin Luther King Jr

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could…

— Jon Meacham

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become…

— Frantz Fanon

“The conspicuous absence of the lynching tree in American theological discourse and preaching is profoundly revealing, especially since the crucifixion was clearly a first-century…

— James H. Cone