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- Last statement: "I apologise for your loss and your pain. But I didn't kill those people. Hopefully, we will all learn something about ourselves and each other. And we will learn to stop the cycle of hate and vengeance and come to value what is really going on in this world. "I forgive everyone for this process, which seems to be wrong."
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Aug 16, 2020 · To prompt a deeper understanding of the death-penalty system in the US, photographer Jackie Black recreated the last meals requested by prisoners on death row before they were executed.
Feb 5, 2018 · From John Wayne Gacy to Ted Bundy, history's most infamous death-row inmates made some fascinating requests for their last meals before execution.
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Jan 11, 2017 · In most states and various countries where the death penalty is legal, it's customary to give sentenced prisoners a special last meal at their request.
- 10 Gary Simmons Jr.
- 9 Timothy Mcveigh
- 8 Ted Bundy
- 7 Robert Alton Harris
- 6 Bruno Richard Hauptmann
- 5 John Wayne Gacy
- 4 Adolf Eichmann
- 3 Gary Gilmore
- 2 Velma Barfield
- 1 Lawrence Russell Brewer
Gary Carl Simmons Jr. was a grocery store butcher who was convicted of a horrific 1996 slaying. Simmons was living in Mississippi at the time when a drug dealer named Jeffery Wolfe drove there from Houston. Wolfe and his girlfriend were in town to collect on a $20,000 drug debt that Simmons and another man named Timothy Milano had been putting off ...
Timothy McVeigh remains one of the most infamous and awful killers in all of American history. In 1995, he was involved with the bombing of a federal government building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The bomb blew away much of the federal complex. Tragically, 168 people died in the blast, with hundreds more seriously injured in the fallout. His trial...
Ted Bundy remains one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. Before he was put to death by the state of Florida at the age of 43, he had killed women in far-flung places from the Sunshine State to Colorado, California, and Washington. He was eventually convicted of rape, necrophilia, and three dozen counts of murder. His awful ru...
Robert Alton Harris caught his death row destiny after a crime spree that spread across San Diego in the summer of 1978. First, he and his younger brother stole a car. Then, they kidnapped two teenage boys. When the two teens protested at their treatment, Harris coldly executed both boys. According to courtroom testimony, he told them to “quit cryi...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German immigrant who came to America in search of a new life. Sadly, that’s not what he got. Instead, the immigrant carpenter was accused of kidnapping and killing the infant son of aviation legend and superstar pilot Charles Lindbergh during the Great Depression. Hauptmann forever maintained his innocence, and many pe...
John Wayne Gacy is, without a doubt, one of the creepiest serial killers in all of American history. He was a married father of two young children in the early 1970s. In his spare time, he worked as a clown at local hospitals, trying to cheer up sick kids. He was known around town for dressing up in a clown costume and makeup to donate his time to ...
Adolf Eichmann was a notorious SS officer who carried out unspeakable atrocities during the Holocaust. As one of Adolf Hitler’s most trusted confidantes, Eichmann oversaw the gassing deaths and executions of untold numbers of Jewish people, Gypsies, homosexuals, and other unfortunate people across Germany’s concentration camps. After the Holocaust,...
Gary Gilmore robbed two men in rural Utah in the summer of 1976. Then, in a bid to make sure no witnesses were left behind, he shot the two men to death and discarded their bodies. His plan to avoid leaving witnesses was foiled, though, when he accidentally shot himself with the murder weapon. He wasn’t severely wounded, but he left a literal trail...
Velma Barfield was a mother and grandmother who had been caught killing people with arsenic and other methods of poisoning during her life. The North Carolina woman was outwardly a devout Christian and similar to many of the other older women in the state at that time. But she harbored a dark secret that eventually came out in time. Velma had murde...
Lawrence Russell Brewer was a passenger in a truck driven by a man named Shawn Berry outside the city of Jasper, Texas, early in the morning on June 7, 1998. At about 1:30 am, they came upon a man named James Byrd Jr., who was walking home on a rural road after a party. Brewer, Berry, and a third passenger named John King were all white; Byrd was b...
Jan 24, 2014 · Bottom line: Death row inmates who head off to their execution proclaiming their innocence are more likely to refuse a last meal; they request a last meal containing fewer calories; and...
Aug 18, 2020 · The first is "what would I do if I won the lottery ?" The second: "What would my last meal be, before my execution?" A death row inmate's last meal is a time honored tradition, and reports of the contents of a convict's final dinner have become a staple of macabre journalism.
Jul 8, 2015 · For 15 years, Julie Green has painted images of death row inmates’ last meal requests in cobalt blue mineral paint onto second-hand ceramic plates. She intends to continue making 50 plates per year until capital punishment is abolished.
