Rushford Quotes

You can have a jury of 12 and have one juror overrule the other 11 in the sentencing phase of a capital case. You're not really allowing the process to go through. - Michael Rushford

They (body control systems executives) did study this, and the decision was that Rushford was the one that made the most sense to close, economically. - John Wilkerson

There are less murders, less murder victims and less death sentences because, in our view, we have been giving this problem the right medicine. - Michael Rushford

Perhaps now he will finally get the punishment that a jury unanimously agreed he deserved. - Michael Rushford

Most states have effective habitual offender laws. These laws take the most likely group of potential capital murderers off the street. - Michael Rushford

It's kind of like taking people who really love Burger King down to the slaughterhouse. - Michael Rushford

I can't see in what sense it would lend momentum. - Michael Rushford

Cannot be erased by children's books or misplaced celebrity. - Michael Rushford

[But Rushford is quick to add that methods of execution such as the firing squad and the gallows are not only safe, they're deserved punishments.] If done properly, everything that they've done has been humane... Nobody dies as easily as convicted murders in this country. It's a much quicker, more merciful death than their victims suffered. - Michael Rushford