Book of Deuteronomy Quotes

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty. Time will pass and seasons will come and go. Spring with its waving green grass and heaps of sweet-smelling flowers on every hill and in every dale. Then sultry Summer, with her shimmering heat-waves on the baked horizon. And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growing brown and golden under a sinking sun. And finally Winter, with its biting, whining wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. But you won't be here to see any of 'em; not by a damn sight, because it's the order of this court that you be took to the nearest tree and hanged by the neck till you're dead, dead, dead, you olive-colored son of a billy goat.

Capital punishment may not be much of a deterrent against murder, but the sight of a few corpses swinging from a scaffold might work with drug dealers.

While I live, every criminal must die.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

I believe in the death penalty.

The killing of a criminal can be moral, but never its legitimation.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

I don't hang anyone—the law does.

Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.

If I had had the slightest doubt, I certainly would not have imposed the death penalty.

Malcolm is worthy of death.

The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messengers is execution or crucifixion or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides

If you’re going to have the death penalty, you had better be sure that you have the right man.

The fact is that our administration of the criminal law has as nearly reached perfection in guarding the innocent (and guilty) from conviction as is possible for any human institution; but in securing the safety and order of the community by the conviction of the guilty it is woefully inadequate.

The people would be just as noisy if they were going to see me hanged.

It is easy not to support the death penalty when there is doubt about the culpability of the person sitting in the chair; it is harder to sustain such principles when the crime of the accused is morally indefensible.

Somewhere within the concept of justice, the worst of the guilty must always be removed. I cannot divorce this, not completely. The people must have justice and so I want to reinstate and enshrine the blessed and holy guillotine!

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

Let the Lord judge the criminals.

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.