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Were it not that they are loath to lay out money on a rope, they would be hanged forthwith, and sometimes die to save charges.

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There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.

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What a pity that he who steals a penny loaf should be hung, whilst he who steals thousands of the public money should be acquitted!

Most people don't like to be hanged.

Do not trust to that; for these very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Only poor men get hanged.

These men are the kind who would kill their slaves and families rather than let us free them.

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In England many persons have a singular love for the relics of thieves and murderers, or other great criminals. The ropes with which they have been hanged are very often bought by collectors at a guinea per foot. Great sums were paid for the rope which hanged Dr. Dodd, and for those more recently which did justice upon Mr. Fauntleroy for forgery, and on Thurtell for the murder of Mr. Weare. The murder of Maria Marten, by Corder, in the year 1828, excited the greatest interest all over the country. People came from Wales and Scotland, and even from Ireland, to visit the barn where the body of the murdered woman was buried. Every one of them was anxious to carry away some memorial of his visit. Pieces of the barn-door, tiles from the roof, and, above all, the clothes of the poor victim, were eagerly sought after. A lock of her hair was sold for two guineas, and the purchaser thought himself fortunate in getting it so cheaply.

You can torture people to death but you jolly well can't give them a full life sentence because that's against their human rights.
We can't hang them because we're now a member of the European Union and it's embedded in the treaty of Rome.
It's a personal thing but I'd hang the bastards myself. ... Especially for some of these, especially for the guy who hacked the soldier to death. I do hope they would ask me to throw the rope over the beam because I'd be delighted to do so.

My niggas stack their money just to spend it
'Cause, when you die, you cannot take it with you

Some people are terrified of snakes. Some people are terrified about losing money.

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

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"For it is very hard, my lord," said a convicted felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, "to hang a poor man for stealing a horse." "You are not to be hanged sir," answered my ever-honored and beloved friend, "for stealing a horse, but you are to be hanged that horses may not be stolen."

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