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Tag: last words

by Ron Franscell

Dead Man Talking: Killers’ last words can be humorous … and monstrous

As it does fairly regularly, Texas executed a killer on Tuesday. Christopher Young, 34, shot a San Antonio convenience store clerk to death in 2004. The victim’s family had begged Texas—in vain—not to execute Young, so before he lay on the gurney that would be his death bed, Young said he loved his victim’s family…Read More…

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