Bill Wiseman Quotes

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

We should execute 27, or 30 or 35 people at one time.

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

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?

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

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

You will be excellently executed.

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

The death sentence is a barbaric act.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

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.

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.

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.

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.

Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

… who are weekly sacrificed upon the gallows in sufficient numbers to astonish a civilized people

Why does the new crime bill have so many new ways of killing people?

I am a proponent of capital punishment. I am not a proponent of capital torture.

I still carry the marks on my body of what those "German supermen" did to me then. I was sentenced to death.

One of the reasons that I chose firing squad as opposed to any other form of execution is because it’s one of the cheapest for the state.

We are talking about a pendulum of decency when it comes to societal standards…At one point the guillotine was fine. At one point the firing squad was fine. Our Supreme court is trying to make it more palatable by saying “death by lethal injection”

Crucifixion is the most cruel and disgusting penalty; the worst of deaths.