Bret Hart Quotes

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

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?

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.

Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

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.

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

Execution halts your breath, helter skelter spiral death.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I don't oppose my own death by firing squad. But that might be letting me off too lightly. Chopping off my head might be better.

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

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke.

If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.

The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

The death sentence is a barbaric act.