Texan death row - final statements

[Chalky.]

https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/dr_executed_offenders.html

Interesting stuff.

[MinhDinh]

Some nice statements. I wonder why some are on death row and some murderes aren't.
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[Jayy]

Something really bizzare about reading them final statements. Interesting though.

[EazyDuz]

https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/dr_info/bridgewarrenlast.html
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[Cadbury]

https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/dr_info/woodsstevenlast.html

Strangely, this guy was technically innocent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_and_execution_of_Steven_Michael_Woods,_Jr.

[MarJay]

I particularly liked this one:

'm waiting in my cold cell, when the bell begins to chime.
Reflecting on my past life and it doesn't have much time.
'Cause at 5 o'clock they take me to the Gallows Pole,
The sands of time for me are running low...

When the priest comes to read me the last rites,
I take a look through the bars at the last sights,
Of a world that has gone very wrong for me.

Can it be that there's some sort of error?
Hard to stop the surmounting terror.
Is this really the end, not some crazy dream?

Somebody please tell me that I'm dreaming,
It's not easy to stop from screaming,
But words escape me when I try to speak.
Tears flow but why am I crying?
After all I'm not afraid of dying.
Don't I believe that there never is an end?

As the guards march me out to the courtyard,
Somebody cries from a cell "God be with you".
If there's a God then why does he let me go?

As I walk my life drifts before me.
Though the end is near I'm not sorry.
Catch my soul, it's willing to fly away.

Mark my words believe my soul lives on.
Don't worry now that I have gone.
I've gone beyond to see the truth.

When you know that your time is close at hand,
Maybe then you'll begin to understand
Life down here is just a strange illusion.
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[Aikman666]

Pretty fascinating. I notice how a lot of them mention "the taste". Just reading about it seems to make it a whole lot less barbaric.
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[Walloper]

Read the last statement.
Then read what the bastards did.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Lol

[Jayy]

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[tbourner]

Funny how every single one mentions God and forgiveness and Jesus Christ the saviour etc. etc. Yet they're all (mostly) viscous murderers!! How very Christian of them.
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[pendulum]

I know it's Texas, but it's striking how many of them say y'all.
Also striking how many of them protest complete innocence right to the end.
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[colin1]

[Ariel Badger]

"I want to thank Father Walsh for his spiritual help. I want to thank Bob Ray (Sanders) and Steve Blow for their friendship. What I want people to know is that they call me a cold-blooded killer when I shot a man that shot me first. The only thing that convicted me was that I am a Mexican and that he was a police officer. People hollered for my life, and they are to have my life tonight. The people never hollered for the life of the policeman that killed a thirteen-year-old boy who was handcuffed in the back seat of a police car. The people never hollered for the life of a Houston police officer who beat up and drowned Jose Campo Torres and threw his body in the river. You call that equal justice. This is your equal justice. This is America’s equal justice. A Mexican’s life is worth nothing. When a policeman kills someone he gets a suspended sentence or probation. When a Mexican kills a police officer this is what you get. From there you call me a cold-blooded murderer. I didn’t tie anyone to a stretcher. I didn’t pump any poison into anybody’s veins from behind a locked door. You call this justice. I call this and your society a bunch of cold-blooded murderers. I don’t say this with any bitterness or anger. I just say this with truthfulness. I hope God forgives me for all my sins. I hope that God will be as merciful to society as he has been to me. I’m ready, Warden."
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[Dilyan]

Any women on it?

edit: yes
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[pendulum]

Last Statement:

Let’s do it, man. Lock and load. Ain’t life a [expletive deleted] ?


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[GF-91]

Interesting find


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[mistergixer]

This one made me think of Hetzer:

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