Source: The Well of Lost Plots
Interview, The Paris Review (Summer 1956)
“I live in Fresno which is a death sentence already.”
Gary Brecher at exile.ru/authors, 2002
“All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death;”
De Profundis (1897)
“If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.”
“It was death to be in their way and seven French battlions were now in death's forecourt”
Narrator, p. 101
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Escape (2003)
Context: They were thieves and murderers and fools and rapists and drunkards. Not one had joined for love of country, and certainly not for love of their King [... ] They were paid pitifully, fined for every item they lost, and the few pennies they managed to keep they usually gambled away. They were feckless rogues, as violent as hounds and as coarse as swine, but they had two things. They had pride. And they had the precious ability to fire platoon volleys. They could fire those half company volleys faster than any other army in the world. Stand in front of these recoats and the balls came thick as hail. It was death to be in their way and seven French battlions were now in death's forecourt and the South Essex was tearing them to ribbons.
He sighed slightly. “I always did fancy happy endings.”
Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 21 (p. 430)
Source: Wagers of Sin (1996), Chapter 21 (p. 430)
“We do not want sentence of death with a stay of execution for six years.”
Speech in the House of Commons against a Government amendment allowing each county of Ulster to opt out of Home Rule for six years, 9 March 1914.
I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273
Simple Verses (1891)
“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.”
These words, which have been widely attributed to Scalia, do not appear in any of his writings or statements. http://www.snopes.com/scalia-death-penalty-quote He nonetheless remarked in Herrera v. Collins (1993, concurring) that state courts had no obligation to review a death sentence on factual innocence grounds, an opinion that he repeated in In re Davis (2009, dissenting).
Misattributed
