Quotes About Electric Chair

#1. Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.

Gregory Corso

#2. Flabby, bald, lobotomized,
he drifted in a sheepish calm,
where no agonizing reappraisal
jarred his concentration on the electric chair-
hanging like an oasis on his air
of lost connections ...

Robert Lowell

#3. Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life.

Albert Fish

#4. She has an electric blender, electric toaster and electric bread maker. She said "There are too many gadgets and no place to sit down!" So I bought her an electric chair.

Red Skelton

#5. You know who doesn't get the death penalty? Crazy people. That's a defense in America. My client's crazy. He doesn't know what he did. Fine, then he doesn't know we're gonna kill him. If a guy's that retard, you put him the electric chair and tell him it's a ride.

Bobby Slayton

#6. And are they consistent with the injuries inflicted by the electric chair, with

Patricia Cornwell

#7. Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? 'French Fries!'"
Convicted murderer James French to members of the press who were witnesses at his execution by the State of Oklahoma in the electric chair in 1966.

James French

#8. I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#9. This happened in 1932, when the state penitentiary was still at Cold Mountain. And the electric chair was there, too, of course.

Stephen King

#10. But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Ernest Gaines

#11. a labor and delivery room that contained some very interesting equipment. It made me only slightly less comfortable than that time I got to sit in an actual electric chair. You know, for giggles.

Darynda Jones

#12. (You wouldn't believe how many people will hang up a picture of an electric chair? especially if it matches the color of their curtains.

Andy Warhol

#13. My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

Rodney Dangerfield

#14. Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. 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?

Michael Badnarik

#16. We talked about the nice poor people who went to the electric chair; and we talked about the rich bastards who didn't. We talked about religious people who had perversions. We talked about a lot of things.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. What a thrill that will be if I have to die in the electric chair. It will be the supreme thrill. The only one I haven't tried.

Albert Fish

#18. Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Tennessee is the first state to reintroduce the electric chair without giving prisoners an option.

Anonymous

#19. Stanley wondered if this was how a condemned man felt on his way to the electric chair - appreciating all of the good things in life for the last time.

Louis Sachar

#20. A cross with yellow roses. What a fucking thing. It was like an electric chair with floral-print cushions, a bad joke.

Anonymous

#21. Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#22. It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment.

Antonin Scalia

#23. To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.

Pyotr Kapitsa

#24. A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#25. Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#26. Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

Billy Joel

#27. The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

J. Edgar Hoover

#28. 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.

Uwe Boll

#29. To Flora, the doorbell sounded like the electric chair. Not

Kate DiCamillo

#30. There's a way to do an acid trip like Harold & Kumar, and there's a way to be on acid. What I know of acting, Sean Penn actually strapped up to that (electric) chair in Dead Man Walking. These are the guys that I look up to.

Shia Labeouf

#31. When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Sylvester Stallone

#32. Mom always said I was born to sit in the electric chair, but I'm proving her wrong. I'm going to die on my knees, begging for my life.

Bauvard

#33. I expect you (William Whitelaw) were as impressed as I was to read of the recent electrocution in Florida of a character called John Spenkelink in the electric chair. It seems that a full six minutes passed before Spenkelink was dead, during which time he hopped about like a prawn on a hot plate.

William Donaldson

#34. You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes.

Andy Warhol

#35. The physiological effects of an electrocution are severe and painful. Besides launching the body into violent convulsions, the electrocution of a human being causes massive destruction throughout the body.

Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini

#36. A vast deal of human sympathy runs along the electric line of needlework, stretching from the throne to the wicker chair of the humble seamstress.

Nathaniel Hawthorne