What? Still alive at twenty-two? A find, upstanding lad like you? Why, if your throat ’tis hard to slit, Slit your girl’s and swing for it. Like enough, you won’t be glad, When they come to hang you, lad; But bacon’s not the only thing, That’s cured by hanging from a string.
Capital Punishment Quotes
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
It took only a moment to cause this head to fall and a hundred years will not suffice to produce its like. (on the execution of chemist Antoine Lavoisier during the 1789 French revolution)
