Peter O'Toole Quotes
He had witnessed thousands of Crucifixions and did not favor the method of execution.
See the related quotes for the "ancient views" to which her referred.
Queen Boudicca of the Iceni tribe had revolted in Roman Britain. The Romans where particularly harsh in putting down revolts but under Emperor Nero and Caligula after him, they sunk to the deepest of barbarities,
He was finally brought to justice after being protected by the right wing for many years. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. See related quote.
The Scimitar editors assumed that the author was a man. It was Ida B. Wells. The lynch mob found no one and only ransacked the Free Speech offices, threatening to lynch the editors if they ever returned.
The capital punishment debate was raging in Europe. Belgium and parts of Switzerland had just abolished the death penalty.
The victim would be slowly cut 1000 times in ways to inflict more and more pain but not kill the victim rapidly.
Although we think is grizzley and macabre that throngs of people should attend executions adn percieve the spectators to be gross and insensitive, there was a bizarre kind of morality operating in many counties. At all times in history executions tend to bet botched with terrible and unnecessary suffering inflicted on the victim. When executioners do that with drug coctails or other methods of dispatching death, we tend to make institutional complaints. But as this quotation shows, the executioner was often turned on by the mob and in some cases were actually themselves killed.
Although Bolivar is generally seen as a great idealist and humanitarian, he had his brutal and immoral aspects. This quotation proves that Bolivar ordered the bloody massacre of helpless Spanish prisoners of war including those in the hospital. Also the beheading illustrates the bitterness and barbarity of the wars for independence from Spain. See {632671} for Bolivar’s rationale for massacring helpless prisoners of war.
Named after penal reformer Johne Howard, 1726-1790. Howard Associations have since been organized in many countries.
In 1831 a slave preacher, Nat Turner, led a rebellion in North Carolina killing over 50 whites. Even though Turner and the rebels were captured and executed, whites throughout the South, took vengeance on any slaves they could find. This description was of a North Carolina community.
Peter Seamus O'Toole was an Irish-British stage and film actor. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and began working in the theatre, gaining recognition as a Shakespearean actor at the Bristol Old Vic and with the English Stage Company. In 1959 he made his West End debut in The Long and the Short and the Tall, and played the title role in Hamlet in the National Theatre’s first production in 1963. Excelling on the London stage, O'Toole was known as a "hellraiser" off it.
