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— Saeed al-Taweel, editor-in-chief of Al-Khamsa News (10 October 2023), quoted by Al Jazeera shortly before being killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City alongside fellow journalists Mohammed Subh and Hisham Alnwajha. "I'm sorry for all the wrongs I have done. And for those who have called for my death, who are about to murder me, I ...
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 ...
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.
Christopher Collings’ last words, meal before execution for 2007 rape, murder of 9-year-old girl are revealed ... with a single dose of pentobarbital inside a state prison in Bonne Terre ...
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 ...
"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)
A gruesome crime, a cruel penalty. Some might think justice was done. But was it?
The phrase originates from the last words of Eric Garner, an unarmed man who was killed in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by a New York City police officer. A number of other Black Americans, such as Javier Ambler, Manuel Ellis, Elijah McClain, and George Floyd, have said the same phrase prior to dying during similar law-enforcement ...