Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Christopher Collings was executed for the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl. AP Collings’ last meal was reportedly a bacon cheeseburger, breaded mushrooms, tater tots and a chef salad.
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)
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.
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 ...
On January 5, Best convinced Arridy to agree to leave the train to a fellow death row inmate, Angelo Agnes, who would be executed in a double execution the same year in September. [72] [73] [74] Arridy was initially reluctant to give his favorite toy away, but warmed up to the idea after playing with Agnes and Norman Wharton for a few hours.
Garrett was tried and convicted of the crime. [3] He was held at Ellis Unit, north of Huntsville, Texas, which at the time held men on the State of Texas's death row. [4] He was originally scheduled to be executed on January 6, 1992, but after Pope John Paul II asked for clemency, Governor of Texas Ann Richards gave him a temporary reprieve.
The trial was earlier told that Mrs Baxter had a thyroid condition and a pacemaker. “If she had moved after those… images were taken, the pacemaker would have recorded it,” said Ms Ayling.