Jesse Ventura Quotes

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 found that the death penalty  -  and I'm not a hot-button issue person, you know, I'm not a single issue person  -  but what I think drew me to the death penalty is because it raises some very deep, fundamental questions like: Is anybody beyond redemption?

Remember the death penalty is murder.

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

You will be excellently executed.

I want to accelerate, not slow down, the enforcement of the death penalty in Florida.

I have the death sentence in seven genres.

In Texas, we have the death penalty, and we use it. That's right. If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back.

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

As the warden of San Quentin, I presided over four executions. After each one, someone on the staff would ask, 'Is the world safer because of what we did tonight?' We knew the answer: No.

All that's missing for Utah is a blindfold and a cigarette.

Having fully expressed our conviction that the punishment of death is one which should sometimes be inflicted, we may add that we would have it resorted to as unfrequently as possible.

Henceforth, there shall be no more execution by beheading with an axe.

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

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?

The death penalty makes us all murderers.

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.

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

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? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain?

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

I've never struggled with that at all....in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.