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Saddam recited the Shahada twice as he was executed, dying as he said "and Muhammad" in his second recitation. "My address is 130 Green Meadow Lane, Fayetteville, Georgia 30215" [11] — Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (24 June 2007), last text message sent to a co-worker before committing murder-suicide. [82]
"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)
Conrad Henri Roy III (September 12, 1995 – July 12, 2014) was an American marine salvage captain who died by suicide at the age of 18. His girlfriend, 17-year-old Michelle Carter, had encouraged him in text messages to kill himself.
A gruesome crime, a cruel penalty. Some might think justice was done. But was it?
Himmler's corpse after his suicide by cyanide poisoning, May 1945 "I am Heinrich Himmler." [235] — Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi officer (23 May 1945), last words said during his suicide shortly after bitting into a hidden potassium cyanide pill before collapsing dead onto the floor of the headquarters of the Second British Army in Lüneburg.
A journalist, Ron Tripp, who visited Kingston penitentiary wrote: "As soon you walked in, you had a sense that society had crushed and defeated you. It was a human warehouse of death, decay and horror. Many inmates died of murder and suicide within its walls". [2] Prisoners were not permitted to speak outside of their cells.
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 ...
The story of a mentally ill man jailed on littering charges who killed himself by taking a chainsaw to his neck while on work duty at a state prison near Miami provokes a visceral reaction. We ...