Death Penalty Act

Famous quotes containing the words death, penalty and/or act:

    “How I envy you death;
    what could death bring,
    more black, more set with sparks
    to slay, to affright,
    than the memory of those first violets.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “That’s the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness—someone else always suffers for them.”
    —Alfred Sutro (1863–1933)

    “To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)