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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 ...
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 ...
— 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 ...
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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.
— John B. Nixon, American convicted murderer (14 December 2005), right before being executed "My last words will be 'Hoka Hey, it's a good day to die.' Thank you very much. I love you all. Goodbye." [10] [68] — Clarence Ray Allen, American criminal (17 January 2006); statement written prior to execution by lethal injection