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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.
Casement converted to Catholicism before his execution and stated he intended to go "to my death with the body of my God as my last meal." [11] Ruth Ellis: Murder: UK: 1955: Hanging: Scrambled egg. [12] Véronique Frantz: Serial murder: France: 1854: Decapitation by guillotine: Café au lait and a bread roll. [13] Fritz Haarmann: Serial murder ...
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 ...
An Alabama death row inmate was executed Thursday evening by nitrogen gas, but not before a Tex-Mex-style last meal and a profane rant directed at the execution staff. Carey Dale Grayson had been ...
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.
As of 2011, death row inmates in Texas cannot request a final meal, meaning Burton had to choose from the same menu as all other inmates at the state penitentiary in Huntsville before he was given ...
After the issuance of his death warrant, Miller and three other death row prisoners – Nicholas Todd Sutton, Terry Lynn King and Stephen Michael West – filed a lawsuit against the state on November 5, 2018, seeking to be executed by firing squad instead of lethal injection, which was the state's primary method of execution, and stated that ...
Derrick Dearman's last words, meal Dearman used his last words to ask the victims' family, who occupied two of the three observation rooms to the death chamber, for forgiveness. "To the victims ...