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Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...
Last Words of the Executed is a book by Robert K. Elder published in 2010. Studs Terkel contributed a foreword. The book documents the final words of death row inmates in the United States, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The chapters are organized by era and method of execution.
Samuel Lee McDonald Jr. Black 49 M September 24, 1997 St. Louis City: Robert Jordan 29 Alan Jeffrey Bannister White 39 M October 24, 1997 McDonald: Darrell Ruestman 30 Reginald Love Powell Black 29 M February 25, 1998 St. Louis City: Freddie Miller and Arthur Miller 31 Milton Vincent Griffin-El Black 37 M March 25, 1998 Jerome Redden 32
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 1950 and 1959.During this period 76 people were executed by electrocution at the Huntsville Unit in Texas.
— George Stinney, African-American child and youngest American with an exact age executed by the United States (16 June 1944), on whether he had any final words before his wrongful execution via electric chair. 14-year-old Stinney was tried and sentenced to death by Judge Philip H. Stoll in under three hours on 14 April after an all-white ...
In 1982-1983, Rosenblatt was selected for a sabbatical leave by the Una Chapman Cox Foundation. [16] He devoted his sabbatical to assisting Indochinese refugees. The 1990 made-for-television movie, "Last Flight Out" had a character named "Larry Rose" based on Rosenblatt. The movie dramatized Rosenblatt's visit to Saigon in April 1975. [17]
— Daphne Caruana Galizia, Maltese journalist (16 October 2017); last words written before her death in car bombing "Judges! Slobodan Praljak is not a war criminal, with disdain, I reject this verdict. I have taken poison." [162] ("Suci! Slobodan Praljak nije ratni zločinac, s prijezirom odbacujem vašu presudu. To je otrov koji sam popio.")
Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.