Death penalty quotes

“I gotta tell you something, Officer Flynn. It's a sad day when a native son takes up with his oppressor. There's a word for that back home, you know. Penalty's death.”

Johnny Depp - James 'Whitey' Bulger

“You're so brave. When we go to the guillotine, will you let me hold your hand? That might give me courage.”

Isabel Jewell - Seamstress

“- Flo Addams: It's a rabbit's foot. A lucky charm. My uncle wore it for 32 years.
- Little John Sarto: A lucky charm, eh? Where'd you get it?
- Flo Addams: From my mother. With her own hand she took it off of my uncle after they hung him.”

Ann Sothern - Flo Addams
Edward G. Robinson - Little John Sarto

“- Parvus: It doesn't matter! You're all going to die in a day or two.
- Gregory: It may not matter to you, Roman, but it certainly matters to us. Doesn't it, darling?
- Mrs. Gregory: Oh, rather.
- Gregory: Under the terms of the Roman occupancy, we're entitled to be crucified in a purely Jewish area.”
Bernard McKenna - Parvus
Terence Bayler - Gregory
Carol Cleveland - Mrs. Gregory

“- Mattie Ross: Why did they hang him so high?
- Rooster Cogburn: I do not know. Possibly in the belief it'd make him more dead.”
Hailee Steinfeld - Mattie Ross
Jeff Bridges - Rooster Cogburn

“- Dimitri Mishkin: Good morning, Mr. Bond. Sit. I'm Defense Minister Dimitri Mishkin. So, by what means shall we execute you, Commander Bond?
- James Bond: What, no small-talk? No chit-chat? That's the trouble with the world today. No one takes the time to do a really sinister interrogation anymore. It's a lost art.”
Tchéky Karyo - Dimitri Mishkin
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“- Fouquet: His Majesty's executioner will provide the tragedy when this charming little comedy is finished.
- Colbert: His Majesty's executioner could provide the tragedy before the comedy is finished.”
Joseph Schildkraut - Fouquet
Walter Kingsford - Colbert

“- Vann: Well, I think one thing you guys oughta learn is that the story's mine, it belongs to me, so I think I'll tell it my way.
- Graves: No matter which fucking way you tell it, gas chamber is where you're headed, Siegert.”
Owen Wilson - Vann
Dennis Haysbert - Graves

“- Hugh Lang: My clients don't go to jail, Mr. Carr.
- Avington Carr: Oh, he's going to jail. He belongs in jail. You bet your ass he's going to jail. The only question is, is he going to die in jail?”
Don Cheadle - Hugh Lang
Peter Gerety - Avington Carr

“The man who pulls the lever, that breaks your neck will be a dispassionate man. And that dispassion is the very essence of justice.”
Tim Roth - Oswaldo Mobray

“- Jess: Life Sentence.
- Ray Kasten: For you as well.”
Julia Roberts - Jessica Cobb
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Ray Kasten

“I stand for a woman's right to choose. I stand for the elimination of the death penalty.”
Joan Allen - Laine Hanson

“Some states are trying to abolish the death penalty... my states puttin in an express lane.”
Ron White - Ron White

“- Father Jacinto: This is my first execution.
- Tom Martin: Don't worry, Father, it's mine too.”

Frank Puglia - Father Jacinto
Ray Milland - Tom Martin

“- Sydney Carton: My poor child. It isn't understanding we need now. It's courage.
- Seamstress: You're going to die in his place.”
Ronald Colman - Sydney Carton
Isabel Jewell - Seamstress

“- Lt. Dave Spradling: We were supposed to meet in your office fifteen minutes ago to talk about the McDermont case. You're stalling on this thing. We get this done right now, or I mean it, Kaffee, I'm going to hang your boy from a fuckin' yardarm!
- Lt. Daniel Kaffee: Yardarm? Sherby, does the Navy still hang people from Yardarms?
- Lt. Sherby:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Craven - Lt. Dave Spradling
Tom Cruise - Lt. Daniel Kaffee
Geoffrey Nauffts - Lt. Sherby

“A civilized society must live with a hard truth: he who seeks revenge digs two graves.”

Laura Linney - Constance Harraway

“Tell everyone that when the day is out we shall have a wedding. Or a hanging. Either way, we're gonna have a lot of fun, huh?”
Richard Lewis - Prince John

“I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.”
Bill Paxton

“- Robespierre: We fought a revolution in the name of fairness and equality.
- Danton: Now you chop off any head above the rest.”
Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre
Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“These things go through all kind of trials and appeals before they get to us. No use trying to figure out who's naughty or nice and then come sliding down the chimney like a hero. Not on execution day. You're not Santa Claus. No such thing as Santa Claus.”
Bernard Hill - Warden Luther Plunkitt

“Liberality all around. No punishment, I don't want that. And the leaders - Jeff and the rest of 'em - if they escape, leave the country while my back's turned, that wouldn't upset me none. When peace comes it mustn't just be hangings.”

Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“- Brig. Gen. George Crook: A lot of White-Eyes want to see Geronimo hanged for murder.
- Geronimo: Not murder. War. Many bad things happen in war.”
Gene Hackman - Brig. Gen. George Crook
Wes Studi - Geronimo

“I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.”
Richard Attenborough

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