“Nowhere fries ’em quickly enough, not if you want to use the electric chair as a deterrent. You don’t spank your children twelve years after they misbehave, especially if you want your other children to take note.”

—Tommy Pope (Union County Solicitor) discussing the death penalty, November 23, 1994

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