Harsh Punishment Quotes

Treason against the nation and the people shall henceforth be stamped out with ruthless barbarity.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

I'm for moral blackmail when it comes to putting away child molesters.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

I support public hanging for its deterrent effect.

Speaking of poison gas... I say we round up all the drug addicts and gas them!

All persons who dare to incite serfs and peasants to disobey their landlords shall be arrested and taken to the nearest government office, there to be punished forthwith as disturbers of the public tranquility, according to the laws and without leniency. And should it so happen that even after the publication of the present decree of Her Imperial Majesty any serfs and peasants should cease to give the proper obedience to their landlords ... and should make bold to submit unlawful petitions complaining of their landlords, and especially to petition Her Imperial Majesty personally, then both those who make the complaints and those who write up the petitions shall be punished by the knout and forthwith deported to Nerchinsk to penal servitude for life

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals.

Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong.

An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.

If I were asked to chose between execution and life in prison I would, of course, chose the latter. It's better to live somehow than not at all.

In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

Those children who have been most chastised seldom make the best men.

This law forbids slaves belonging to different masters to assemble in crowds…. Any slave who shall have struck his master, his mistress, or the husband of his mistress, or their children, so as to produce a bruise or shedding of blood in the face, shall be put to death.

Four walls are three too many for a prison — you only need one for an execution

Capital punishment may not be much of a deterrent against murder, but the sight of a few corpses swinging from a scaffold might work with drug dealers.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.

Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

[Casual drug users] ... ought to be taken out and shot.... We're in a war and drug use is treason.

No man e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after they’ve been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know.