Steven Hale > Quotes

“capital punishment is the stepchild of lynching, and the ropes of the lynch mob and the state have never been fully disentangled.”
― Steven Hale, Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

“the trial was not so different from the lethal injection we were about to witness: Barbarism dressed as bureaucracy and armed with legal jargon.”
― Steven Hale, Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

“I had seen the death, but not the row—the dying, but not the living.”
― Steven Hale, Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber