Quotes About Execution

Get a grip, Haskell.  Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi.  What's complicated about that?

I have lots of ideas. How do I pick the right one? Execute on as many as possible. The right idea will pick you.

This is not true. Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

Someone who could get up in the morning, make coffee, choose what to wear, and then go out and cold-bloodedly put a total stranger to death. Did you have to be some kind of anomalous, psychopathic freak to do that? Did you have to be born that way? Or could any woman, correctly programmed, be turned into a professional executioner?

Advertising is a craft executed by people who aspire to be artists, but is assessed by those who aspire to be scientists. I cannot imagine any human relationship more perfectly designed to produce total mayhem."13

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, "I'd like to do this, or that.

the description of myself that I like best is that of problem-solver, or doer.

the mafia kills in the way a state does; it does not murder, it executes.

But the workingpeople, the common people, they won't allow it.' 'It's the common people who get most fun out of the torture and execution of great men.... If it's not going too far back I'd like to know who it was demanded the execution of our friend Jesus H. Christ.

A client once said: "Long-range, strategic planning is a great tool, but we need to get some things done before lunch!

God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed…" -Judge Frank Howell Seay

Since 1990, Oklahoma has executed more convicts on a per capita basis than any other state. No place, not even Texas, comes close.

God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.

While considering my decision in this case, I told a friend, a layman, I believed the facts and the law dictated that I must grant a new trial to a man who had been convicted and sentenced to death. My friend asked, "Is he a murderer?" I replied simply, "We won't know until he receives a fair trial." God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.

and not a year ago?' 'I should have, but I figured the courts down here would finally realize they had the wrong guy. I just got out of prison in Kansas, and a few days ago I saw in the paper where they were getting ready to execute Drumm. Surprised

If you see a problem, Theo, think of a way to fix it and do it now. Don't spend all your time making plans.

God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while those who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.

But rituals are important to the men who run prisons, and nothing gets their adrenaline pumping like an execution. Their little lives are mundane and monotonous, but occasionally the world tunes in when it's time to kill a killer. No effort at heightened drama is to be missed.

and exactly twenty-one feet from the ground. From there it fell about nine feet, culminating in a perfect hangman's knot, one that Seth had undoubtedly worked on for some time.

He loved the gamesmanship. He was a sociopath who killed for revenge, but he tried on the planning and execution, and the perfection of his crimes.

Two of his sons were captured, one of them Sir John, who was executed next day at Aberdeen.

One of the accounts of her execution dismissed her as "transcending the skills of the most accomplished actress.

and one of the executioners took the medallion from around her neck

On the scaffold, he shouted out the truth to the assembled crowd.