- Vernon Schillinger: So the state's gonna let Keane choose which way he's gonna go out. Me, I'd take hanging.
- Mark Mack: What about lethal injection?
- Vernon Schillinger: That's for pussies.
- Donald Groves: They say that lethal injection causes no pain. How do they know? Did someone come back from the dead and say they didn't feel anything?
- [last lines]
- Augustus Hill: There's this brother on death row somewheres, he checked in when he was sixteen. He sat there another sixteen years while the courts and lawyers argued about this and that. While he waited, he painted a mural on his wall. For all those years, he painted, not letting a soul see what he was up to. Finally, when he was thirty-two and had spent more life on death row than in his mama's house, all his appeals were exhausted. He was about to die. As he was about to be let out for the final time, he finally unveiled his masterpiece. All there was were six words, "Death is certain. Life is not." The next day the hacks painted over it. Peace out.
- Vernon Schillinger: [after discovering Beecher trying to defend Keane] Eat it!
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: What?
- Vernon Schillinger: [tears out a page from the law book] Eat the page!
- Tobias 'Toby' Beecher: No.
- Vernon Schillinger: [forces the page into his mouth] Don't you fuck with me, prag! You eat that damn page!
- [tears another page]
- Vernon Schillinger: Here, eat another!
- [after Jefferson Keane's execution]
- Governor James Devlin: [gleefully, during a press conference] Justice has been served!
- Joey D'Angelo: You bet Detroit on the Sox-Tigers game?
- Ryan O'Reily: Yeah?
- Joey D'Angelo: You lost.
- Ryan O'Reily: Fucking Thomas.
- Joey D'Angelo: You owe.
- Ryan O'Reily: I know.
- Joey D'Angelo: So?
- Ryan O'Reily: I'm good for it.
- Joey D'Angelo: Says you.
- Ryan O'Reily: What? I haven't paid before?
- Joey D'Angelo: I want it now.
- Ryan O'Reily: Why?
- Joey D'Angelo: 'Cause you owe.
- Ryan O'Reily: Why you busting my balls?
- Joey D'Angelo: 'Cause I don't like your face.
- Ryan O'Reily: Hey, pal, take a look in the mirror!
- Joey D'Angelo: You wanna die?
- Ryan O'Reily: You wanna try?
- Cornelius Keane: Jefferson was my oldest, so he always had a special place. A man shouldn't live to see his own son die.
- Father Ray Mukada: Richard L'Italien confessed to thirty-nine murders, all young women. He suffocated them all.
- Sister Peter Marie Reimondo: If the governor had his way, he would execute L'Italien thirty-nine times.