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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.
“After a brief movement of his left hand and fingers at about 12:37 a.m., Corcoran did not move again,” wrote Casey Smith of the Indiana Capital Chronicle. “Blinds to the witness room were ...
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 ...
The 54-year-old is the third person to be put to death in Texas this year, and the 11th in the US. As of 2011, death row inmates in Texas cannot request a final meal, meaning Burton had to choose ...
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— 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 ...
Christopher Collings' last words, meal before execution in 2007 rape, murder of 9-year-old girl revealed ... and lived in the same home as the two and Rowan’s mother, Colleen Munson, for several ...