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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.
"It is a bad cause which cannot bear the words of a dying man." [17] [note 94] — Henry Vane the Younger, English politician, statesman and colonial governor (14 June 1662), prior to execution by beheading for treason "My God, forsake me not." [17] [note 95] — Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and theologian (19 August 1662)
— 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 ...
Williams was among death row inmates in five states who were scheduled to be put to death in the span of a week — an unusually high number that defies a yearslong decline in the use and support ...
— Debbie Reynolds, American actress and singer (28 December 2016), before dying of intracerebral hemorrhage one day after the death of her daughter, Carrie Fisher "I don't know nobody by that name" — Robert Godwin Sr, American murder victim (16 April 2017), before being shot and killed by Steve William Stephens.
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 ...
Christopher Collings, 49, was declared dead nine minutes after he was injected with a single dose of pentobarbital inside a state prison in Bonne Terre — marking the 23rd execution in the US ...
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide." [citation needed] — Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee (10 September 1813), to his son Death of Poniatowski by January Suchodolski