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May 14, 2024 · 1. Jimmy Glass, 1987 (Louisiana) oddee.com. Last Words: “I’d Rather Be Fishing”. On Christmas of 1982, 20-year-old Jimmy Glass and inmate Jimmy Wingo escaped from jail and shot an elderly couple to death while burglarizing their home. Both blamed each other for the crime and both ended up on the electric chair. 2.
Dec 13, 2023 · Most of them had something to say in their last moments, and those words are now collected in a book, Final Words: 578 Men and Women Executed on Texas Death Row. About 100 chose to say...
Feb 22, 2007 · Whether it's a sorrowful apology to family or best wishes for sports teams, the final statements of Death Row inmates before execution offer an inside look at the last moments.
Homicide. Death row inmates' last words. By Brie Stimson Fox News. Published February 7, 2020 2:30am EST. Video. Death row inmates' last words. In 1790, Thomas Bird became the...
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- Clarence Ray Allen: "Hoka Hey, it's a good day to die" While serving life in California's Folsom Prison for the 1974 murder of his son's girlfriend, who'd snitched on a robbery Clarence Ray Allen committed, Allen solicited hits on eight witnesses against him.
- William Bonin: "Think about it seriously" Dubbed the "Freeway Killer" after many of his victims' bodies were discovered along Southern California roadsides in 1979 and 1980, William Bonin was convicted for 14 murders of boys and young men — although he is suspected of the rape and murder of many more.
- George Bernard Harris: "Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney" After winning big in a Kansas City, Mo., craps game on March 11, 1989, George Bernard Harris gave $500 to a man in exchange for two machine guns, then enlisted a second man to hold the guns for safekeeping.
- Ted Bundy: "Give my love to my family and friends" The exact number of rapes, murders and kidnappings carried out by Ted Bundy is unknown. He was convicted for killing two Florida State University sorority sisters in January 1978, and a 12-year-old girl three weeks later, all committed after he'd escaped from jail — twice — in Colorado, where he was facing charges in the 1975 murder of a nurse.
May 11, 2015 · While men and women on death row always come with a certain mystique, there are a few who have made their mark on history by saying some terrifying, angry, sorrowful, passionate, honest,...
May 24, 2017 · By KATE BRUMBACK. Updated 12:06 PM PDT, May 24, 2017. ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia inmate J.W. Ledford Jr. used his final moments to quote from the movie “Cool Hand Luke” and toss out an insult. “What we have here is a failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So that’s why we have here what we have here today. I am not the failure.
