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"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)
"Reb Aryeh's eyes radiated love and comradeship, and he spoke soft and soothing words of encouragement to those imprisoned. Even the most stubborn prisoners succumbed to his simple, untainted love for his fellow man." Levin invested great efforts to avert death sentences and reduce the punishment of those sentenced to life imprisonment.
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.
Basim Faiz Mawat stood in the Damascus cell that his fellow prisoners used to call the "death dormitory", struggling to believe that the system that abused him for so long had been overthrown and ...
Bernie Madoff is dying of cancer in prison, The New York Post reports, citing Bernie's fellow inmates. Madoff is serving 150 years at a North Carolina federal lockup after pleading guilty to ...
The Ordinary of Newgate's Account was a sister publication of the Old Bailey's Proceedings, regularly published from 1676 to 1772 and containing biographies and last dying speeches of the prisoners executed at Tyburn during that period.
Jason Wade Means died in prison on Saturday, but the Alabama Department of Corrections hasn't released information about what caused his death. No word on prisoner's cause of death at St. Clair ...
— Larry Dean Dixon, American politician, Alabama State Senator (4 December 2020), dying of COVID-19 "The only words that I can say that completely capture how I feel now and how I felt that day." [207] — Brandon Bernard, right before being executed (10 December 2020) "No!" [208] — Lisa Marie Montgomery, right before being executed (13 ...