“That one mother who goes on television all the time, who thinks I should be given 33 injections, I think she ought to take 33 Valiums and go lay down…. If her Marine son was so great, then what the hell did he run away from home all the time?”— John Wayne Gacy, chicago.cbslocal.com
“The only thanks you and your kind will ever get from me for your efforts on my behalf is that I wish you all had one neck and that I had my hands on it.”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“I look forward to a seat in the electric chair or dance at the end of a rope just like some folks do for their wedding night.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“Alas! am I to be so horribly and cruelly treated? Alas! that my body, whole and entire, which has never been corrupted, should to-day be consumed and burned to ashes! Ah! I would far rather have my head cut off, seven times over, than be thus burned!”— Joan of Arc, indiana.edu
“"Capital-punishment states are the worst animal states and the worst for the handicapped.” All this makes Temple passionately angry, and passionately concerned for humane reform: she wants to reform the treatment of the handicapped, especially the autistic, as she wants to reform the treatment of ca…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The sole motivating factor behind the death penalty is vengeance, not justice, and I firmly believe that a government that forbids killing among its citizens should not be in the business of killing people itself.”— Larry Flynt, hollywoodreporter.com
“I would like to make it crystal clear I do not regret what I did. I am not sorry. I have not shed a tear for the innocent people I killed.”— Dylann Roof, nytimes.com
“In a world of so much violence and killing, I just don’t believe that government itself should be part of the killing”— Bernie Sanders, huffingtonpost.com