Conferences Quote by Mark Shurtleff

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer.…

— Anonymous

Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah.…

— Ruth May Fox

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

— Michael O'Donoghue

With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the state punishes…

— William J. Brennan

Now in Utah if you get the death sentence, they have the firing squad. In Russia, they call that early retirement.

— David Letterman

“The feeling against the Mormons as expressed by the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin was: The blood of American citizens cries for vengeance from…

— Juanita Brooks

Happy Memorial Day to someone who would stab himself in the leg to avoid military service.

— Anonymous

The majority of Utah's citizens do not merely approve the death penalty, they demand it - the state religion demands it.

— Shana Alexander

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

— Kristin Hersh

We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about…

— Kelly Corrigan

Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

— Laozi

The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The…

— William J. Brennan