Lethal Injection Quotes:

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

- Steven Wright

topic: Funny, Humor, Lethal Injection, Injection

I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign, are sort of like going to sleep, and they're not. They're brutal things.

- Alex Kozinski

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Lying, Sleep, Thinking, Injection, Lethal Injection

Before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol. It's true. Well, they don't want you to get an infection, and you can see their point. They don't want some guy go to hell and be sick.

- George Carlin

source: George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.310, Hachette UK

topic: Giving, Sick, Guy, Injection, Lethal Injection

Nineteen percent of doctors say that they'd be able to give their patients a lethal injection. But they also went on to say that the patient would have to be really, really behind on payments.

- Jay Leno

topic: Doctors, Medicine, Giving, Injection, Lethal Injection

I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent a powerful message: We are not the evil ones. We are reasonable and compassionate. We stand for fairness, structure, and organization. It’s the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos.

- Lauren Oliver

source: Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.11, Harper Collins

topic: Powerful, Organization, People, Injection, Lethal Injection

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

topic: Winning, Giving, Fifty, Injection, Lethal Injection

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal.

- Kurt Vonnegut

source: Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.24, Penguin

topic: Jesus, Ideas, Progress, Injection, Lethal Injection