Chris Gibson Quotes

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

Brown’s execution will make the gallows as glorious as the cross.

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

My head was spinning, I had never seen blood. Four years old, this don't feel like love.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

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

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.

Emotions run high in war and we put a lot of people in prison who did no more than you or I.

A murder is not a martyr. He or she is just a murderer.

The sorry path that remains for me to follow from an obscure prison to the gallows has been trodden by men with more merit than my own.

In Iran they believe that girls who are virgins go to heaven. So when a young woman is in prison to be executed, they rape her before they kill her.

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history

Citizens, by what illusion could one persuade himself that you are inhuman. Your Revolutionary Tribunal has condemned three hundred rascals to death in a year. Has not the Spanish Inquisition done worse than that ... Have the English assizes butchered no one in that period? ... What of the kings of Europe, does anyone prate to them of pity? Ah, do not allow yourselves to grow soft-hearted!

Some wonder why I have such a feeling of concern over the imposition of the death penalty. I ask those who wonder how would you feel if you defended a man charged with murder, who was as innocent as any hon. member in this House at this very moment, who was convicted; whose appeal was dismissed, who was executed; and six months later the star witness for the Crown admitted that he, himself, had committed the murder and blamed it on the accused? That experience will never be effaced from my memory.

It was horrible to torture the guilty wretch; the burning was an act of insanity. But had the dismembered form of his victim been the dishonored body of my baby, I might also have gone into an insanity that might have ended never.