Couple months back I posted about the Dead Man Eating Weblog, which tracks last meals of death row inmates, and summarizes the inmate's crime and last words. As a sort of followup to that, and in light of the headlines recently about the 1,000th execution in the US, it seemed like as good a time as any time to bring these up...
A history of botched executions
Last statements (ie. last words) of Texas death row inmates (via In4mador)
The transcript and RealAudio link from a thoughtful and well-done documentary called "Witness to an Execution" is over at soundportraits.org, a non-profit that specializes in audio documentaries and is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. They not only have other excellent pieces on this particular subject like "The Execution Tapes" (Real Audio required to listen), but on a whole variety of subjects. Soundportraits.org does wonderful work. Check 'em out.
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