Ernest J. Gaines Quote

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.


A Lesson Before Dying (1993), ch. 1 [court appointed attorney]


What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.