Top 1200 Death Row Quotes & Sayings

It was noted long ago that the front row of burlesque houses was occupied predominantly by bald-headed men. In fact, such a row became known as the bald-headed row. It might be assumed from this on statistical evidence that the continued close observation of chorus girls in tights caused loss of hair from the top of the head.

Heaven's full of astronauts and the Lord's on death row.

I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.

On average, a prisoner in the U.S. spends around ten years on Death Row before execution.

On good days, I've done bubbles with as many as 38 faces - a row of pentagons, a row of hexagons, and another row of pentagons on bottom.

My first job out of law school was representing people on death row in North Carolina, where I often saw the impact of hasty prosecutions.

In our family, we don't have rifts. We have a jolly good row and then it's all over. And I've only twice ever had a row with my sister.

I want the dude in the top row to feel like he's down there on the front row in a club.

Joe Biden cannot leave the lives of those on death row in the hands of future presidents. If he truly opposes the death penalty, he must do everything in his power to stop it for good.

Death Row is a bridge out of that ghetto world, giving voices to those people society thinks shouldn't be heard.

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.

I was put on death row because of hate.

When you have a death row case, you have to make 100 percent sure you have the right person. But these DAs in the state of Alabama are racist.

Any rap record from 1989 to 1999, besides [ones on] Death Row, we did promotions for it. We had our hand in everything.

I'm afraid of sudden death. I'd like to know I'm going to die. That's why death row wouldn't be so bad, although it's not pleasant. And cancer, inoperable, wouldn't be bad. That's not pleasant either. But to drop dead suddenly, it's hard on everybody else. My family, my relatives, my friends. It's just not a good way to go. I want to know I'm going to die.

I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the time I was 2, I could sing 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' in three-part harmony.

Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

I went to Paris, I went to France, I went to England, I went to Ireland. In my mind, I can go wherever I wanted to go. I left death row every day.

Death row was the only place where I never witnessed racism. We all went to bed with a death sentence on our heads and woke up that way. We had to become each other's support system.

The biggest government waste: The death penalty. An individual death-penalty case could climb to $100 million, much of it spent at the litigation level. Also, DNA evidence has exonerated nearly 300 death-row inmates.

I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.

Death row prisoners face enormous challenges in finding lawyers who will assist them.

What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.

It seems there are no rich on death row.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

In death row every rule in society is flipped.

Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

Row after row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element, The wind whirrs without recollection.

Death Row is the same every day - breakfast at 3 A.M., lunch at 10 A.M., dinner at 3 P.M.

Those folks at Death Row were the Rolling Stones of their time.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

The men on death row had been told the world would be better without them. I tried to say that this may not be where we want to be, but let's do what we can for one another.

Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.

It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.

I genuinely believe that being on death row for 22 years ultimately saved my life. It was the greatest adventure of my life, and I survived it.

I shouldn't have sat on death row 30 years. All they had to do was test the gun. But when you think you are high and mighty and you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody, but I've got news for you.

I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for most of the people sentenced - I'm not a passionate anti-death penalty person. In truth, given all the other problems of the justice system, the numbers are so small, I think there are bigger fish to fry. Ironically, in terms of mental health and care, death row is probably the best prison situation to be in. There's a little more public eye on that, to ensure at least minimal levels of official treatment are actually given to death row prisoners.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

I know, every fighter knows, you've got to pile up wins in a row. You can't lose two in a row, three in a row and then you hear mentions of losing your job.

Death row saved my life. It taught me everything is a luxury to be treasured.

Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?

With L.A. it's like, yeah, there's Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what those artists were sampling. It's how I fell in love with music.

For more than 20 years my identity was bonded with those people on death row, I cared about them.

So the chances of you being sentenced to Death Row in America is roughly the same as you winning the lottery.

I spent 30 years on Alabama's death row for a crime I did not commit.

Being on death row has taken so much from me as a human being.

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row

Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

My 15 years of freedom have been harder than all of my death row years combined.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke.