Henry Wotton Quotes

You will be excellently executed.

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

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

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?

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?

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.

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

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.

I believe in the death penalty.

I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

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.

I don't oppose my own death by firing squad. But that might be letting me off too lightly. Chopping off my head might be better.

They could hang people for what's in there.

I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

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

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.

With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

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.

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it.