Death penalty quotes

“I want the last face you see in this world to be the face of love, so you look at me when they do this thing. I'll be the face of love for you.”

Susan Sarandon - Sister Helen Prejean

“Don't do it, Daddy! You'll hit me once too often - and then they'll... they'll hang yer!”
Lillian Gish - Lucy - The Girl

“We must try to stop the killing...”

Monirak Sisowath - Phat (K.R. Leader 2nd Village)

“- Young Prospero: Do you know what crime this man committed, Machiavel?
- Machiavel: All crimes exact the same punishment.
- Young Prospero: It's easy to kiil.”

Nicholas Rapattoni - Young Prospero
Patrick Macnee - Machiavel

“- King James: Ah, Sunderland, what brings you here?
- Lord Sunderland: These numerous hangings.
- King James: Splendid, aren't they? We kill the rebels. We kill the rebellion.”
Vernon Steele - King James
Halliwell Hobbes - Lord Sunderland

“It's my duty to inform you that the larceny of an equine is a capital offense punishable by death, but you can rest assured that in this court, a horse thief always gets a fair trial before he's hung.”

Walter Brennan - Judge Roy Bean

“- Governor: Lord Henry Blackwood, you are sentenced to death for the practice of black magic, the unholy murders of five innocent young women, and the attempted murder of a sixth. Have you any final words?
- Lord Blackwood: Death... is only the beginning.”
James Greene - Governor
Mark Strong - Lord Blackwood

“Chicolini, you're charged with high treason, and if found guilty, you'll be shot.”

Charles Middleton - Prosecutor

“It went dark... If he'd have turned around, Frank, they'd have hanged us for it... and something... something put that cop there... It's an act of God those lights went out!”

Jessica Lange - Cora Papadakis

- Jack Ryan: Said anything yet?
- FBI Agent Dan Murray: Yeah. "We're innocent".
- Jack Ryan: Till the D.A. offers them a deal.
- FBI Agent Dan Murray: He already has. Regular or extra crispy. He was either referring to fried chicken or the electric chair.
Harrison Ford - Jack Ryan
Tim Grimm - FBI Agent Dan Murray

“- Melvin Purvis: Goodbye, Mr. Dillinger.
- John Dillinger: I'll see you down the road.
- Melvin Purvis: No, you will not. The only way that you will leave a jail cell is when we take you out to execute you.
- John Dillinger: Well, we'll see about that.”
Christian Bale - Melvin Purvis
Johnny Depp - John Dillinger

“Regardless of what you may think of me, I did defend that boy to the very best of my abilities. And, boy, has it cost me. Hell, I lost half of my business from defending that son-of-a-bitch. And he got the chair. You have any idea what my life would be like if I had gotten him acquitted?”

Ned Beatty - McNair

“- Ted Crawford: You really need to be nice to me now, Willy.
- Willy Beachum: Why?
- Ted Crawford: Because... what's left of a life depends on a machine powered by a cord that leads to a plug in an electrical outlet... and I decide when it gets pulled. That's why.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Ted Crawford
Ryan Gosling - Willy Beachum

“- Judge Griffin: Chief Justice, this city is in chaos! For social order we need tighter reigns! Incarceration hasn't worked as a deterrent, I say we expand execution to include lesser crimes!
- Chief Justice Fargo: My fellow judges, I was barely in my teens when I put on this badge. When the time comes for me to take it off, please let me do so...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jürgen Prochnow - Judge Griffin
Max von Sydow - Judge Fargo

“I will be there in spirit. I promise. You can talk to me whenever you want, all right? Remember what we talked about, the little baby Jesus? Remember that? Well, I will be up there with Him. And I will be watching you. And I'll wait for you. And if you want to talk to me anytime, I will be there listening.”

Isaiah Washington - Frank Louis Beechum

“In Texas we have the death penalty, and we use it! If you come to Texas and kill somebody, we will kill you back! That's our policy!”
Ron White - Ron White

“Death row? You mean like the chair, the hot seat, dead meat, deep 6, it's over pal, you're outta here bub, the groundhog's are bringing you your mail, you're picking turnips with a step ladder, the no tomorrow row? That kind of row? Oh no. The row?”
Jim Varney - Ernest P. Worrell

“Hanging is such an unpleasant death.”
Joseph Calleia - Vasquez

“- First reporter: Say, do you know anything about electricity?
- S.B. Bellows: My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at State Prison.”
Jimmy Conlin - First reporter
W.C. Fields - S. B. Bellows

“Just so you know, you're not eating inside. Number one: they hang people 'round here for taking in deserters. Number two: even if they gave out prizes you'd still eat outside.”

Renee Zellweger - Ruby Thewes

“- Frank Drebin: Hey! The missing evidence in the Kelner case! My God, he really was innocent!
- Ed Hocken: He went to the chair two years ago, Frank.”
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin
George Kennedy - Ed Hocken

“- Cauchon: Father Vincente, you're the most venerable among us. What do you think?
- Father Vincente: I think this trial is a masquerade, and I won't be part of it anymore. I'm willing to be her judge, but not her executioner.
- Cauchon: That's what I'm trying to ensure.
- Father Vincente: A verdict comes at the end of a trial, Cauchon, not at...” (continue)(continue reading)
Timothy West - Cauchon

“The name of the man who finds Philippe Gaston will be brought to the personal attention of the Bishop, as will be the body of the man who lets him get away!”

Ken Hutchison - Marquet

“To die there in the street would have been easy. But it wouldn't have been justice, at least not the justice fathers teach their sons about. I'll be sentenced in a week or so. My lawyer says the judge will look kindly upon me for turning myself in. Maybe it's not the happiest of endings, but it's the right one.”
Jim Carrey - Walter Sparrow

“- Nick: They're tough in Louisiana, Libby. You shoot me, they'll give you the gas chamber.
- Libby: No they won't. It's called double jeopardy. I learned a few things in prison, Nick. I could shoot you in the middle of Mardi Gras and they can't touch me.
- Travis: As an ex-law professor, I can assure you she is right.”
Bruce Greenwood - Nick
Ashley Judd - Libby
Tommy Lee Jones - Travis