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Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

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.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the aggravating circumstances and the mitigating circumstances.

I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed beautifully, but in others, there was tremendous waste.