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Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone,
What is more cruel than a tyrant's ear?
Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
The central question of any execution: do you want the hood on or off? Would you rather see it coming? Or would you rather simply drift away, cocooned in warm darkness, stinking of nothing but yourself? A kind, familiar place to hide in, just before the snap, the crackle? Or the pop?
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
Punishments included hanging by the thumbs, toes barely touching the ground; bucking and gagging, being trussed like a turkey with a bit cutting the mouth; spread-eagling on a spare wheel, mocking crucifixion; flogging; and branding.
The Executioner shall not have much trouble, for I have a little neck. I shall be known as La Reine Sans Tete
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.
Flog no one else with meat.
Each has a placard hung around his neck to show why he has been executed: a drawing of a human fetus. They
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
Clearly, this is an historic form of waterboarding, and, interestingly, the professional torturers of the Inquisition were not only happy to define it as a form of torture, but by the early 1600s had abandoned it in favour of methods they 'regarded as more merciful'.46
Let us continue to hone and hone the methods by which man hangs his fellow man and be done, once and for all, with any hypocrisy.
Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul
Death by muffin.
If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because youre likely to win?
Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone. I wouldn't mind hanging, boys, but you wait in jail so long.
The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.
Guile is the shield and spear of the oppressed.
A thousand years of torture rule, The knave who dares to harm a fool." I
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.
Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
I always say that no matter what the torture is, or the tool is, first of all it's nothing worse than what's been done already and that wasn't done by the church and the state for over a period of 250 years during the European witch trials.
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.
Death by hanging ... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.
Now is the time for guts and guile
The threat is stronger than the execution.
He who intended to introduce a new law, should do it with a rope about his neck, in order that he might be immediately strangled, unless he could change the ancient constitution of the polity, to the very great advantage of the community.
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.
Untie me so I can kill you.
I look at it this way; you have two choices. The first is for you to stay impaled and die a slow but agonizing death. The second is that I can end it for you right here and now. Either way, you're going to die,
A crude puppet impaled by her puppet master.
Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.
I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging.
What he brought out was a wooden gag they put in someone's mouth before doing something drastic, like cutting off a leg.
We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.
SE Self Execution the act will always be greater than the pain.
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
Tortured for the Republic.
When one creature is murdered, another is immediately deprived of life in a slow torturing manner; then the executioners, their hands yet reeking with the blood of innocence, believe that they have done a great deed.
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine
If our school ever performed a play about the French Revolution, she could play the guillotine.
'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.
Some arguments require a knife if you're to cut to the quick, others require the breaking of heads with a philosopher's stone.
Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
Hanged Three Times
We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.
When it call comes down to it, nothing trumps execution.
These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.
You have to execute. You have to sacrifice your body.
The noose around a man's neck is tighter than that of his fists
It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.
A word writ doon can hang a man
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.
He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.
All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.
To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
The death sentence is a barbaric act.
Kill the head, the body will die.
A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.
We may remain more or less open-minded on the subject of the death penalty, indisposed to commit ourselves, so long as we have not seen a guillotine with our own eyes.
If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.
Decapitation is faster and more predictable than death by hanging, lethal injection, electric shock or gassing, but the spectacle is too grim for our sensibilities.
What a fine thing capital punishment is! Dead men never repent; dead men never bring awkward stories to light. The prospect of the gallows, too, makes them hardy and bold. Ah, it's a fine thing for the trade! Five of them strung up in a row, and none left to play booty or turn white-livered!
Revenge proves its own executioner.
Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination."
"No, this is an execution."
"The difference would be ... ?"
"Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.
Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.
Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just - his turn!
They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a crime for which there is no pardon. She had struck a white man. She had not killed him, however. In her clumsy rage she had only managed to gash his shoulder
There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged." ~ Aldous Huxley
Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now ...
I want a sword to slit her end to end and then, with one hundred more cuts, dice her body into small pieces and leave the bloodied,quivering remains of skin, muscle, and soulless guts on her front lawn, arranged in a gruesome scarlet letter.
YOU CAN ONLY BEHEAD PEOPLE WHO DESERVE IT, IF THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.
How simple death without weapons was. How safe for the killer.
("Mind Over Murder")
Kill the body and the head will die.
Such was the discipline of Elizabeth's court that any man who struck another within it had his right hand chopped off by the executioner in a most horrible manner.
The coward's weapon, poison.
Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
But to be hanged - is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body.
Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime
for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
Killer with a polo mallet.