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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.
Smith was executed by electric chair at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in Jackson, Georgia, thereby becoming the first person to be executed in Georgia since the electrocution of Bernard Dye on October 16, 1964, which occurred prior to the death penalty moratorium established by Furman v. Georgia. [18]
People executed by Georgia (U.S. state) (4 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Prisoners sentenced to death by Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Georgia was decided in 1976; Gregg v. Georgia, the 1976 United States Supreme Court decision ending the de facto moratorium on the death penalty imposed by the Court in its 1972 decision Furman v. Georgia; List of death row inmates in Georgia; List of most recent executions by jurisdiction; List of people executed in the United States in 2015
Andersonville: The Last Depot. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-5781-6. McPherson, James M. (1988). Battle cry of freedom: the Civil War era. The Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-503863-7. Page, James Madison; Haley, M.J. (1908). The True Story of Andersonville Prison. Neale ...
Georgia is set to execute a prisoner on Wednesday evening for the first time since January 2020, ... The last execution in Georgia was in January 2020. There were 36 men and one woman under death ...
Christopher Collings' last words, meal before execution in 2007 rape, murder of 9-year-old girl revealed ... Spears ended up pleading to lesser charges and served more than seven years in prison ...
— 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 ...