Hangman Quotes

Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock

The bodies of victims were ... the hangman’s property. Although obliged to sell the corpses of murderers to surgeons for dissection purposes, the executioner sometimes sold them back to the families if they offered a better price. It was often difficult to keep the body intact as the crowd would grab pieces as macabre souvenirs. On 18 December 1758, a riot broke out when the medics fought the family for possession of the victim’s body – however, the mob won and carried the corpse away in triumph. The hangman would also be allowed to cut up the rope that was used in the execution and sell bits off in the pubs on Fleet Street.

If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

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.

Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

My execution, and the execution of my gallows companions, will be of use to you. May they show you what you can expect of the English government.

I have the Muji pen that has different colors. My daughter loves to play hangman, or we draw. It's important you can draw a rainbow at all times.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.

Have fun and play as many word games as possible.

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.