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The TDCJ website has stated since at least 2012 that "this offender declined to make a last statement." [7] However, there are last words of Garrett reported from the time of execution re-quoted frequently, and reported by APBnews as: "I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. The rest of the world can kiss my ever-loving ...
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.
The TDCJ keeps an online record of all of its executions, including race, age, county of origin, and last words. [65] The TDCJ is the only corrections agency in the US to extensively catalog the last words of executed inmates, and the only one to post the last words, other than the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR ...
"My last words to you, my son and successor, are: Never trust the Russians." [3] — Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan (1 October 1901), to Habibullah Khan "Come right out this way." [7] [8] — William Thomas Maxwell, American tracker and deputized sheriff (8 October 1901), telling the Smith Gang to surrender prior to the Battleground ...
Prison officials escorted him on a commercial flight to Tulsa via Atlanta, Georgia, and then put him on a prison van to McAlester on January 11, 1995. [ 9 ] Grasso spent his last days on the normal prison schedule, confined for 23 hours a day to his 14 by 18-foot cell in the prison's Death Row (H-unit), which he shared with 49 other condemned men.
Convicted murderer Joseph Corcoran was put to death early Wednesday morning, in the State of Indiana’s first execution since 2009.. Asked if he wanted to make a final statement before receiving ...
Dillingham, Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) #999071, was received by the prison system on August 31, 1993, at age 20. [2] Dillingham was initially located in the Ellis Unit, but was transferred to the Allan B. Polunsky Unit (formerly the Terrell Unit) in 1999. The site of his execution was the Huntsville Unit. [8]
— Gary Otte, quoting one of Jesus' seven last words, right before being executed (13 September 2017) "I'm OK." [159] — Hugh Hefner, American magazine publisher and founder of Playboy; said to his wife Crystal while being administered antibiotics to treat a soon-fatal E. coli infection (27 September 2017) "Death is so boring. So slow.