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    Quote Originally Posted by Stro07 View Post
    2012's weirdest last words were from Robert Charles Towery, Arizona: "Potato, potato, potato." I haven't got the slightest idea what he meant.
    He didn't get potatoes for his last meal?

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    Well, Towery actually had baked potato with sour cream as part of his last meal, but it's still a mystery why he assured his affection to this crop in his last thoughts on earth.
    Last edited by Stro07; 11-24-2012 at 01:12 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stro07 View Post
    2012's weirdest last words were from Robert Charles Towery, Arizona: "Potato, potato, potato." I haven't got the slightest idea what he meant.

    Here's the explanation
    http://lastsuppersbook.blogspot.it/2...take-then.html

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    Gallows humour from the past that isn’t for the faint of heart

    Gallows humour might well have begun with Maria Antoinette, the pompous and extravagant Queen of France who was executed for treason during the French Revolution.

    Known as the epitome of arrogance, it was therefore a shock to all who heard her final words: “Pardon me, Sir, I meant not to do it.”

    As it turns out, Marie Antoinette was not apologizing for provoking the revolution in which approximately 56,000 French citizens were killed with one-third of them beheaded. She was in fact apologizing to her executioner as she staggered toward the guillotine and accidently stepped on his foot.

    Although the blade has long since been replaced by the noose, the firing squad, the electric chair and now a chemical injection — the last words of those condemned to die by the proverbial sword still sometimes leans to levity.

    James D. French was the last person executed before Oklahoma rescinded the death penalty. A career criminal who wanted to die, he murdered his cell mate to force the state to end his own life.

    Looking at the ghoulish faces of reporters gathered to witness the event, French’s last words were: “How’s this for a headline? French Fries!”

    Carl Panzram was not a nice or even a patient man, not when he was a serial killer or about to be terminated himself in Indiana. “Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill 10 men while you’re fooling around.” Somehow, I don’t think Carl would have been a very good candidate for rehabilitation.

    Some last words like those of domestic killer David Martinez are downright poetic: “Only the sky and the green grass goes on forever and today is a good day to die.” On the contrary, it had not been a good day to die for Martinez’s live-in girlfriend and her son.

    Prior to being chemically put to death in Maryland, triple murderer John Frederick Thanos got his farewell speech down to one word. “Adios.” A man of many murders and very few words. About 20% of inmates choose to say even less than John Thanos which is nothing whatsoever. By far the most common last statement heard by execution witnesses is: “I’m ready, warden.”

    Naturally Texas, where they have executed 484 death-row inmates since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 and four times as many convicts as any other state, would have the largest selection of peculiar last words.

    Just before murderer and rapist Johnny Frank Garrett was given a lethal injection by Texas authorities, he solemnly said: “I’d like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass.”

    Garrett may have had a very good reason to be angry at the world. A documentary titled The Last Word makes a very strong case for his innocence.

    Back in the 1880s it was difficult to punish someone with death who believed in world destruction. Said union activist and founder of the Socialistic Labor Party George Engel just before they hanged him: “Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life.”

    It all began with Marie Antoinette and the guillotine, the beheading device which consisted of a heavy blade dropping at the speed of death between two upright posts.

    In order to provide a more humane way of killing citizens during the French Revolution, this head chopper was designed by a physician. The year was 1792 and gallows humour was created almost immediately.

    As the story goes, a condemned aristocrat was standing on the death platform with his head over the chopping block when a sudden gust of wind rocked the stage and shook the posts on either side of him.

    Jerking his head up and looking at his executioner he yelled: “Good Lord man, is this thing safe?”

    http://www.wellandtribune.ca/2012/12...faint-of-heart
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    Expressing remorse? The only thing that they are sorry for is that they got caught

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    Killer’s final words – “Kiss my ass” – not original among executed.

    Just before the Commonwealth of Virginia electrocuted 42-year-old Robert Charles Gleason, Jr. Wednesday night, the three-time murderer’s last words were “kiss my ass” in Gaelic and then “God Bless.”

    Among the 16,000-some executions in this nation’s history, his was among the many unrepentant and defiant exit statements.

    And it wasn’t original.

    “Kiss my ass” was also the final statement of extreme serial killer John Wayne Gacy Jr., an amateur clown who sexually assaulted and murdered at least 33 boys and young men during the 1970s. He was executed in Illinois, one of the most reviled humans in history.

    Virginia, with the second highest rate of executions in the land in modern history, has heard a wide variety of final statements.

    “Tell my family and friends I love them. Tell the governor he just lost my vote. Y’all hurry this along. I’m dying to get out of here,” said robber and murderer Christopher Scott Emmett, executed here in 2008.

    “Today is a good day to die,” began the final statement of contract murderer Mario Benjamin Murphy, executed in Virginia in 1997. “I forgive all of you. I hope God does, too.”

    Linwood Briley, among the worst serial killers in Richmond history, simply said “I am innocent” before he was executed in the old state pen in Richmond in 1984.

    Not long before his execution, Briley, his brother James and Lem Tuggle led a bold death row escape, the only in state history. When Tuggle was executed on December 12, 1996, his final words were a cheery and loud “Merry Christmas!”

    Beltway Sniper John Allen Muhammad said not one word when he was killed by lethal injection here in 2009.

    Teresa Lewis, the first woman executed in Virginia since 1912, apologized to her victim’s daughter just before she died by lethal injection in 2010. Lewis had hired someone to kill her husband and stepson. “I want Kathy to know I love her and I’m very sorry.”

    Gleason, the unrepentant “kiss my ass” killer, fought hard to be executed, choosing electrocution over lethal injection. He began his final statement with: “Can they hear me out there? Well, I hope Percy ain’t going to wet the sponge. Put me on the highway going to Jackson and call my Irish buddies.”

    http://wtvr.com/2013/01/17/holmberg-...mong-executed/
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    Again another right that I would not give to the inmate.
    Some last words have been terrible, especially in front of the victims' families.
    The last words should be said prior to execution, recorded if necessary. Not said in front of the families of those who were murdered.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Eminey1 View Post
    Again another right that I would not give to the inmate.
    Some last words have been terrible, especially in front of the victims' families.
    The last words should be said prior to execution, recorded if necessary. Not said in front of the families of those who were murdered.
    Surely by allowing the right to a last statement (or meal) we are infact showing that we are infact better than they are ? Even if the last words are horrible the Victims family still have the "last laugh" as the inmate dies.
    Don't misunderstand me I am very much pro DP ( I wish we had it here in England) but it is granting these last rights that shows we are infact human.
    Justice should not depend on the size of your bank balance or colour of your skin !

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    Sorry, I duplicated an answer...
    Last edited by mildbill; 02-03-2013 at 11:28 AM. Reason: duplicated an answer

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    Quote Originally Posted by ruffec View Post
    Surely by allowing the right to a last statement (or meal) we are infact showing that we are infact better than they are ? Even if the last words are horrible the Victims family still have the "last laugh" as the inmate dies.
    Don't misunderstand me I am very much pro DP ( I wish we had it here in England) but it is granting these last rights that shows we are infact human.
    Agreed!.......

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