Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
Hanging may seem barbarous, but the greater barbarity lies in the slow abandonment of our common law traditions.
If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.