Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.

The mechanism falls like thunder. Blood spurts. The man is no more.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

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.

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

They are commiting murder who merely live.

It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.

I warn you against shedding blood, indulging in it and making a habit of it, for blood never sleeps.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder.

Where nature with accustomed round Sweeps and garnishes the ground With kindly beauty, warm or cold Alternate seasons never old: Heathen, how furiously you rage, Cursing this blood and brimstone age, How furiously against your will You kill and kill again, and kill: All thought of peace behind you cast, Till like small boys with fear aghast, Each cries for God to understand, 'I could not help it, it was my hand.

A drug for everything is madness. Legal or not, prescribed or not, over-counter under-counter bought for blood on street-corners-every pill separates us from knowing our own completion and from being taught by what's true.

On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.

I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.

I didn't just see myself as a film director here [in Life And Nothing More], but also as an observer of people who had been condemned to death.

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.

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

The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical.

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

Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.

USA Today reports that the number of death row executions this year has hit a 35-year low. They attribute that to DNA evidence clearing more people and the fact that Rick Perry has been on the road campaigning.