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Those revolutionaries who have, by chance, escaped the gallows should live and show to the world that they cannot only embrace gallows for the ideal but also bear the worst type of tortures in the dark, dingy prison cells.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

I had a very comfortable life, but there were people who spent their life in prison, whose families were destroyed.

I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.