Death penalty quotes

“- Dunbar: You think you know everything? You haven't even scratched the surface.
- Hardy: I know enough to know that you've got two choices. You can either sign a confession and spend the rest of your life in a cell. Or you can tell us to fuck off, and you'll be hanged.”

Brian Van Holt - Dunbar
John Travolta - Hardy

“- Brutus 'Brutal' Howell: Do you have anything to say before the sentence is carried out?
- Toot-Toot: Yeah! I want a fried chicken dinner with gravy on the taters, I want to shit in your hat, and I got to have Mae West sit on my face, because I am one horny motherfucker!”

David Morse - Brutus 'Brutal' Howell
Harry Dean Stanton - Toot-Toot

“You knew they were innocent, but you were crazy to see them hanged. And to make me watch it. I could've stopped you with a gun, just as any other animal can be stopped. But I couldn't do it because I'm a coward.”

William Eythe - Gerald Tetley

“- The Judge: The Scolari brothers!
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Friends of yours?
- The Judge: I tried them for murder, gave 'em the chair! You've got to do something!
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Why don't you just tell them you don't believe in ghosts?”

Harris Yulin - The Judge
Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler

“- Cora Papadakis: I'm getting tired of what's right and wrong.
- Frank Chambers: They hang people for that, Cora!”
Jessica Lange - Cora Papadakis
Jack Nicholson - Frank Chambers

“I'll live to see you - all of you - hanging from the highest yardarm in the British fleet.”

Charles Laughton - Bligh

“- Cole Sear: They used to hang people here.
- Stanley Cunningham: No, that... mm-mm, that's not correct. Where'd you hear that?
- Cole Sear: They'd pull the people in, crying and kissing their families 'bye. People watching would spit at them.
- Stanley Cunningham: Uh, Cole, this building was a legal courthouse. Laws were passed here. Some of...” (continue)(continue reading)

Bruce Willis - Stanley Cunningham
Haley Joel Osment - Cole Sear

“A man can be legally executed five different ways. Lethal injection is the most popular, followed by hanging, gas chamber, firing squad and then there's my personal favorite, electrocution. It's all done here, in this totally soundproof isolation chamber. We even let the condemned man choose.”
Michael McGrady - Guard Damon J. Kestner

“I have come here today, to urge you to bring back public hanging!”
Amanda Peterson - Donna Lumis

“- Dr. Kevin Harrison: You want to hang me without any explanation.
- Maggie Whelan: You hang yourself.”
Robert Wagner - Dr. Kevin Harrison
Susan Blakely - Maggie Whelan

“A man just naturally can't take the law into his own hands and hang people without hurting everybody in the world, 'cause then he's just not breaking one law but all laws.”

Henry Fonda - Gil Carter

“If you spend half as much time trying to be a lawyer instead of trying to be Dick Tracy, I might not be dead in five days.”

Gene Hackman - Sam Cayhall

“- Aloysius: You could execute an innocent man, too. And then what would you say?
- Liz: No one is perfect. Are they?”
Isaac Hayes - Aloysius
Lauren Hutton - Liz

“We have developed a device that is the most humane of all. Lethal injection. We strap the guy up. We anesthetize him with shot number one; then we give him shot number two, and that implodes his lungs, and shot number three stops... his heart.”

Robert Prosky - Hilton Barber

“- President René Jean D'Astier: In my country, a guest at the palace of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette would soon find their head in a guillotine if they made the impertinent gesture of dancing without so much as a by-your-leave from the King and the Queen.
- A.J. MacInerney: I bet no one accused Louis of being soft on crime.
- Sydney Ellen Wade...” (continue)(continue reading)
Clement von Franckenstein - President René Jean D'Astier
Martin Sheen - A.J. MacInerney
Annette Bening - Sydney Ellen Wade
Michael Douglas - President Andrew Shepherd

“I'd rather be executed than be an executioner.”
Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“We got bupkis! We turn ourselves in now, they'll give us twenty years in the electric chair!”

Dan Aykroyd - Mother

“The murder rate used to be a thousand a year. Three a day, and that was high. Now it's five. Higher in the summer. Fourteen two Fridays ago. We get the death penalty six, seven times a day, only it's not for murderers, it's for ordinary citizens.”
Vyto Ruginis - Durkin

“- Lt. Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant: Cheer up. You look as if you were going to a funeral.
- Major J.F. Thomas: Harry...
- Lt. Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant: It's all right, Major. I've had a good run. There's nothing for me in England anymore. And back in Australia, well they say if you need a couple of stiff drinks before you climb up on a...” (continue)(continue reading)

Edward Woodward - Lt. Harry Harbord 'Breaker' Morant
Jack Thompson - Major J.F. Thomas

“- Francie Brady: Do you think they'll hang me?
- Policeman: I'm afraid there's no more hanging.
- Francie Brady: Sergeant, what's this world coming to?”
Eamonn Owens - Francie Brady
Ronan Wilmot - Policeman

“- Ira: The penalty for impersonating an officer is five years in prison.
- Harry: Maybe for you, white boy. Me, they hang.”

David Duchovny - Ira
Orlando Jones - Harry

- Executioner: Any last requests?
- Roy Knable: Yeah, how about the long version of "Stairway to Heaven"?
- Executioner: I'm afraid that is not where you are going.

Gordon Masten - Executioner
John Ritter - Roy Knable

“- Frollo: The sentence for insubordination is death. Such a pity. You threw away a promising career.
- Phoebus: Consider it my highest honor, sir.”
Tony Jay - Frollo
Kevin Kline - Phoebus

“Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.”

Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“I much prefer dying in the company of decent citizens like you... always provided I'm the last to die.”
Joseph Calleia - Vasquez