“- Dunbar: You think you know everything? You haven't even scratched the surface.
- Hardy: I know enough to know that you've got two choices. You can either sign a confession and spend the rest of your life in a cell. Or you can tell us to fuck off, and you'll be hanged.”

Brian Van Holt - Dunbar
John Travolta - Hardy

“I'd rather be executed than be an executioner.”
Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“- Aaron: They allow us to have cameras at an execution in Florida. Do you broadcast tape of the guy in the chair when they turn on the voltage?
- Martin Klein: Sure.
- Jennifer Mack: Why not?
- Ernie Merriman: Absolutely.
- Aaron: Nothing like wrestling with a moral dilemma, is there?”
Albert Brooks - Aaron Altman
Robert Katims - Martin Klein
Lois Chiles - Jennifer Mack
Robert Prosky - Ernie Merriman

“Another mistake is for any man to look upon the law as just a set of principles. And just so much language printed on fine, heavy paper. Something he recites and then leans back and takes it for granted that justice is automatically being done.”
Ronald Colman - Professor Michael Lightcap

“- Oscar: I don't understand you. Why do you have to be so goddamned uncompromising?
- Evangeline 'Eva' Dandrige: It's called principle. Maybe the world is in short supply, but I am not.”
Matt Winston - Oscar
Gabrielle Union - Evangeline 'Eva' Dandrige