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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. -- J. Edgar Hoover
Going to the electric chair will be the supreme thrill of my life. -- Albert Fish
A 'school-at-home' approach to homeschooling is just decorating the electric chair in different colors. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled. -- Billy Joel
To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair. -- Pyotr Kapitsa
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. -- Sylvester Stallone
If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses. -- Lenny Bruce
(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
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
What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care! -- Giuseppe Zangara
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Have you noticed how the Republicans and Democrats try to copy each other at their conventions. Like at the Democratic convention John Kerry's daughter told a story about how he once gave CPR to her hamster. At the Republican convention the Bush girls are going to tell a story about how when their hamster was bad, their dad built them a little electric chair. -- Jay Leno
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

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