Better Quote by Meldrim Thomson, Jr

Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.

— Henry Wotton

All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.

— Elizabeth Hawes

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

— Mark Twain

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier.

— Eva Hesse

The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.

— Herbert Lom

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

— Orson Scott Card

Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.

— American Proverb

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

— Isaac Parker

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

— Edward Abbey

“In the same year, William Henly, a Fellow of the Royal Society, wrote to the Humane Society with a suggestion that electricity be used…

— Lucy Inglis

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

— Woody Allen