Bob Costas Quotes

How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?

You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.

You will be excellently executed.

Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

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

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

Henceforth, there shall be no more execution by beheading with an axe.

If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.

Capital punishment, that thing scares me, it really does. I was talking to my friend about the electric chair, and he starts freakin' out. He's like 'the electric chair? That's too good for these people. That's too good for them'. Alright, how do we make the electric chair worse? How about this? They have to pedal a car battery to their own head. Is that ok? Is that enough, Mr. Hitler?

a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.

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

So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time.

It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.

The death penalty only should be - if you agree with it, which I don't, only allowed for murder. You have to murder someone to get the death penalty.

Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

We should execute 27, or 30 or 35 people at one time.

I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.